ArticleJournal of bioethical inquiry2012
The dilemma of revealing sensitive information on paternity status in Arabian social and cultural contexts: telling the truth about paternity in Saudi Arabia.
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- Healing Body and Soul: Islamic Morality, Practitioner Obligations and Extramarital Pregnancy.Journal of religion and health · 2023Article
- The ethics and logistics of field-based genetic paternity studies.Evolutionary human sciences · 2020Article
- Should physicians tell the truth without taking social complications into account? A striking case.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2018Article
- Narrative Identity in Third Party Reproduction: Normative Aspects and Ethical Challenges.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2018Article
- Culturally competent bioethics: analysis of a case study.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2015Article
- The rationality of values: Commentary on "The dilemma of revealing sensitive information on paternity status in Arabian social and cultural contexts" by Abdallah A. Adlan and Henk A. M. J. ten Have.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2012Article
- Does nondisclosure of genetic paternity status constitute a breach of ethics?: Commentary on "The dilemma of revealing sensitive information on paternity status in Arabian social and cultural contexts" by Abdallah A. Adlan and Henk A. M. J. ten Have.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2012Article
- Cases and culture : the benefits and risks of narrating "life as lived".Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2012Article
- Reflections from Taiwan on unsought truth-telling: comparison with lessons from Saudi Arabia: Commentary on "the dilemma of revealing sensitive information on paternity status in Arabian social and cultural contexts" by Abdallah A. Adlan and Henk A. M. J. ten Have.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2012Article
- Cross-cultural issues in ethics: context is everything : Commentary on "The dilemma of revealing sensitive information on paternity status in Arabian social and cultural contexts" by Abdallah A. Adlan and Henk A. M. J. ten Have.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2012Article
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Abstract
Telling the truth is one of the most respected virtues in medical history and one of the most emphasized in the code of medical ethics. Health care providers are frequently confronted with the dilemma as to whether or not to tell the truth. This dilemma deepens when both choices are critically vicious: The choice is no longer between "right and right" or "right and wrong," it is between "wrong and wrong." In the case presented and discussed in this paper, a research team in Saudi Arabia unintentionally uncovered information regarding misattributed paternity. In such a situation and in the context of a tribal cultural system, what should the team do with this information? This case analysis demonstrates the joint application of ethical resources originating from within and outside the Saudi Arabian context. The article analyses the case based on the moral problems involved, relevant medical application, and the impact of such information in the Saudi tribal and Islamic domains. The most pertinent relevant values and secular debates on similar matters are discussed. Finally, the article aims to provide an Islamic dimension of family, fatherhood, and adultery.
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