Transplantation ethics from the Islamic point of view

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Golmakani, Mohammad Mehdi ^a   Niknam, Mohammad Hussein ^b   Hedayat, Kamyar M ^c,d  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL EDUCATION   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ADVOCATE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain death; Gift giving; Informed consent; Iran; Islam; Medical ethics; Religion and medicine; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEATH; CADAVER DONOR; ETHICS; HUMAN; LAW; MOSLEM; ORGAN DONOR; RELIGION; REVIEW; TRANSPLANTATION;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; RELIGIOUS APPROACH;

ADULT; BRAIN DEATH; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; IRAN; ISLAM; LIVING DONORS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 17444414995     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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