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Medical Ethics in Islam

Islamic medical ethics and bioethics: core principles and current issues at the intersection of fiqh and modern medicine.

Islamic medical ethics (bio-fiqh) concerns the evaluation of medical practice and biotechnological developments in light of usul al-fiqh and Islamic values. The preservation of life, non-maleficence, patient rights and human dignity are among its core principles.

Many current issues — organ transplantation, reproductive technologies, genetic intervention, end-of-life decisions and ethics in epidemics — call for fresh ijtihad within the methodology of Islamic law.

A leading figure of bio-fiqh in Turkey, Assoc. Prof. Tuba Erkoç Baydar treats this field systematically in works such as "Fiqh and Bioethics" and "Medicine and Ethics in Times of Corona".

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What is bio-fiqh?

Bio-fiqh is the interdisciplinary field in which developments in medicine and the life sciences are evaluated within usul al-fiqh; it is also called Islamic bioethics.

What are the core principles of Islamic medical ethics?

Preservation of life, non-maleficence, beneficence, patient consent, privacy and human dignity are the principal ones.

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