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Islam and Bioethics

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For the last several decades, bioethics have progressively developed in the life sciences and health due to rapid progress in research and advanced medical therapeutics coupled with the realization that not all that medicine can do for patients necessarily means the all should be done.

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  1. Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt

    Nahed M. Ali

  2. Epidemiology & Public Health, University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Samer S. El-Kamary

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  1. University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Henry Silverman

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Ali, N.M., El-Kamary, S.S. (2017). Islam and Bioethics. In: Silverman, H. (eds) Research Ethics in the Arab Region. Research Ethics Forum, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65266-5_2

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