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  1. Organ Transplantation, Euthanasia, Cloning and Animal Experimentation: An Islamic View.Abul Faḍl Moḥsin Ebrāhīm - 2001 - Leicester: Islamic Foundation.
    This book deal with ethico-legal issues. Muslims believe that everything they own has been given to them as an amanah (trust) from Allah. Would it constitute a breach of that trust to consent to enrol oneself as an organ donor? Cloning could rectify the problem of infertile couples, but such technology could also be abused with dire consequences. While euthanasia may apparently alleviate the suffering of the terminally ill, would that not compound their agony in the life hereafter? The author (...)
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  • How Societies Remember.Paul Connerton - 1989 - Cambridge University Press.
    Most studies of memory as a cultural faculty focus on written practices and how they are transmitted. This study concentrates on incorporated practices and provides an account of how these things are transmitted in and as traditions. The author argues that images and recollected knowledge of the past are conveyed and sustained by ritual performances, and that performative memory is bodily. This is an essential aspect of social memory that until now has been badly neglected.
  • Islamic biomedical ethics: principles and application.Abdulaziz Abdulhussein Sachedina - 2009 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    In search of principles of health care in Islam -- Health and suffering -- Beginning of life -- Terminating early life -- Death and dying -- Organ donation and cosmetic enhancement -- Recent developments -- Epilogue.
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  • Contemporary muslim ethics of abortion.Donna Lee Bowen - 2003 - In Jonathan E. Brockopp (ed.), Islamic Ethics of Life: Abortion, War, and Euthanasia. University of South Carolina Press.
     
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