Books-in-Brief: Ethics of Assisted Reproductive Medicine: A Comparative Study of Western Secular and Islamic Bioethics

Sharmin Islam · Shiraz Khan

12/2015 · IIIT

Táto e‑kniha

 Ethics of Assisted Reproductive Medicine compares and contrasts

Western and Islamic models of bioethics to make the case that the

Islamic perspective (taken from the Qur’an and the Sunnah) provides a

viable and clear alternative that goes beyond the dominance of the

secular and its various philosophical bases, to give Revelation and

spiritual understanding precedence. Human cloning, surrogacy, and IVF,

are some of the more hotly contested topics. The author analyzes these

rigorously and objectively, addressing the perspectives of both the

secular Western and Islamic models, and fundamentally how each has

chosen to framework its own understanding of the issues at hand. In

discussing these issues, keeping to principles, the author charts the way

out of a confused circle of opinion that is making it very hard to decide

“what is best”.

O autorovi

SHARMIN ISLAM is Assistant Professor, Department of General Education, Northern University, Bangladesh.