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Is there a distinctively Islamic approach to medical ethics? Given recent trends in Islamic thought, one might expect a positive answer. Everywhere one turns, Muslims speak for particularity: politically, for an Islamic government; economically, for an Islamic alternative to socialism and capitalism. Similarly, the Islamic Code of Medical Ethics promulgated in Kuwait in 1981 by the First International Conference on Islamic Medicine asserts that the
Muslim Medical Profession should be conversant with Islam’s teachings and abide by them. It should also thoroughly study at first hand the data, facts, figures and projections of various parameters actually existent in Muslim societies. Upon this should be decided what to take and what to reject from the experiences and conclusions of other societies. Reconciliation with a policy of uncritical copying of alien experience should be stopped ([4], p. 73/77).1
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Kelsay, J. (1994). Islam and Medical Ethics. In: Camenisch, P.F. (eds) Religious Methods and Resources in Bioethics. Theology and Medicine, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8362-6_4
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