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Brain death and Islam: the interface of religion, culture, history, law, and modern medicine.
Review in Chest, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 63 citations in OpenAlex.
- Informing national policy: Healthcare workers' readiness for a deceased donor kidney transplant program in Brunei Darussalam.World journal of transplantation · 2026Article
- An Investigation into the Public's Attitude Toward Opting out of Brain Death.Neurocritical care · 2025Article
- Public knowledge about and attitudes toward organ donation, and public barriers to donate in Jordan: A cross-sectional study.World journal of transplantation · 2024Article
- A Framework for Examining Bioethical Issues from a Sunni Perspective: Maslaha.Journal of religion and health · 2024Article
- Deceased donor kidney transplant policies in Asia - implications on practice and recommendations for the future.The Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia · 2024Review
- Towards a better understanding between non-Muslim primary care clinicians and Muslim patients: A literature review intended to reduce health care inequities in Muslim patients.Health policy OPEN · 2023Review
- Death pluralism: a proposal.Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM · 2023Article
- Impact of Religiosity on Delirium Severity Among Critically Ill Shi'a Muslims: A Prospective Multi-Center Observational Study.Journal of religion and health · 2021Observational
- The ethical obligation to provide care to patients diagnosed with brain death until the end stages based on grounded theory.Journal of medical ethics and history of medicine · 2021Article
- Improving psychological security and empowerment: New model for nurses toward the care of potential organ donors.Journal of education and health promotion · 2021Article
- Assessing comfort level of organ donation competencies among pediatric intensivists in Saudi Arabia: a national survey.BMC medical education · 2020Article
- Allied Muslim Healthcare Professional Perspectives on Death by Neurologic Criteria.Neurocritical care · 2020Article
- The Moral Status of Organ Donation and Transplantation Within Islamic Law: TheTransplantation direct · 2020Article
- Challenges in the Management of Care of Brain-Dead Patients in the Donation Process: A Qualitative Content Analysis.International journal of organ transplantation medicine · 2020Article
- Opinions on the Legitimacy of Death Declaration by Neurological Criteria from the Perspective of 3 Abrahamic Faiths.Medeniyet medical journal · 2019Review
- Analysis of the reasons for nurses' confusion in relation to the concept of brain death from clinical and legal points of view.Electronic physician · 2018Review
- Organ Transplantation in Iran; Current State and Challenges with a View on Ethical Consideration.Journal of clinical medicine · 2018Review
- How Infertility Patients and Providers View and Confront Religious and Spiritual Issues.Journal of religion and health · 2018Article
- Islamic perspectives on clinical intervention near the end-of-life: We can but must we?Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2017Article
- The Perspectives of Islamic Jurists on the Brain Death as Legal Death in Islam.Journal of religion and health · 2016Article
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Abstract
How one defines death may vary. It is important for clinicians to recognize those aspects of a patient's religious beliefs that may directly influence medical care and how such practices may interface with local laws governing the determination of death. Debate continues about the validity and certainty of brain death criteria within Islamic traditions. A search of PubMed, Scopus, EMBASE, Web of Science, PsycNet, Sociological Abstracts, DIALOGUE ProQuest, Lexus Nexus, Google, and applicable religious texts was conducted to address the question of whether brain death is accepted as true death among Islamic scholars and clinicians and to discuss how divergent opinions may affect clinical care. The results of the literature review inform this discussion. Brain death has been acknowledged as representing true death by many Muslim scholars and medical organizations, including the Islamic Fiqh Academies of the Organization of the Islamic Conference and the Muslim World League, the Islamic Medical Association of North America, and other faith-based medical organizations as well as legal rulings by multiple Islamic nations. However, consensus in the Muslim world is not unanimous, and a sizable minority accepts death by cardiopulmonary criteria only.
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