ArticleHEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues2013
Brain-dead patients are not cadavers: the need to revise the definition of death in Muslim communities.
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- Legislative Enforcement of Nonconsensual Determination of Neurological (Brain) Death in Muslim Patients: A Violation of Religious Rights.Journal of religion and health · 2018Article
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- Somatic survival and organ donation among brain-dead patients in the state of Qatar.BMC neurology · 2016Article
- Campaigning for Organ Donation at Mosques.HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2016Article
- A Response to the Legitimacy of Brain Death in Islam.Journal of religion and health · 2016Review
- The determination of quality of life and medical futility in disorders of consciousness: reinterpreting the moral code of Islam.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB · 2015Article
- The lack of scientific evidence in clinical practice guideline in brain death determination: Implications for organ donation and transplantation.Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2014Article
- The moral code in Islam and organ donation in Western countries: reinterpreting religious scriptures to meet utilitarian medical objectives.Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM · 2014Review
- End-of-life care ethical decision-making: Shiite scholars' views.Journal of medical ethics and history of medicine · 2014Article
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Abstract
The utilitarian construct of two alternative criteria of human death increases the supply of transplantable organs at the end of life. Neither the neurological criterion (heart-beating donation) nor the circulatory criterion (non-heart-beating donation) is grounded in scientific evidence but based on philosophical reasoning. A utilitarian death definition can have unintended consequences for dying Muslim patients: (1) the expedited process of determining death for retrieval of transplantable organs can lead to diagnostic errors, (2) the equivalence of brain death with human death may be incorrect, and (3) end-of-life religious values and traditional rituals may be sacrificed. Therefore, it is imperative to reevaluate the two different types and criteria of death introduced by the Resolution (Fatwa) of the Council of Islamic Jurisprudence on Resuscitation Apparatus in 1986. Although we recognize that this Fatwa was based on best scientific evidence available at that time, more recent evidence shows that it rests on outdated knowledge and understanding of the phenomenon of human death. We recommend redefining death in Islam to reaffirm the singularity of this biological phenomenon as revealed in the Quran 14 centuries ago.
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