Bioethics: the values of life in the age of advancing biosciences

Hashi, Abdurezak Abdulahi (2021) Bioethics: the values of life in the age of advancing biosciences. Darul Tashih, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ISBN 978-967-5505-22-5

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Abstract

This book, Bioethics, the Values of Life in the Age of Advancing Biosciences, addresses ethical issues and practices on the advances of biosciences. It focuses on the need for balancing between moral demands of what ought to be in life and modern developments in the fields of biotechnology, biomedicine, environmental sciences and healthcare practices. It presents the justifications of acting morally, the place of ethics in the age of advancing science, the history, scope and approaches of bioethics. It also offers a comparative account of traditional theories of ethics, and briefly highlights ethical teachings of major religious traditions, with certain details about the scope and principles of the Islamic ethics. e book uses descriptive and comparative approaches and presents bioethical debates on genetically modified food, tissue engineering, environmental ethics, concerns of sharing body parties of organs and tissues, contraception and the moral predicaments of preventing the initiation of life, prolife and prochoice moral debates on abortion, infertility treatment and the ethics of parenthood, as well as the sanctity of life in the face of clinical trials.

Item Type:	Book
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Bioethics, Biosciences, Islamic Ethics, Moral Theories
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics > BJ1188 Religious ethics B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion BPL Islamic education > BPL27 Aims and objectives of education. Sustainable education R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Science > Department of Biotechnology Kulliyyah of Science
Depositing User:	DR ABDUREZAK ABDULAHI HASHI
Date Deposited:	26 Apr 2024 10:51
Last Modified:	26 Apr 2024 11:46
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/111750

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