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Mapping out an Islamic Bioethics

An Intensive Workshop

Aug 1st-3rd 2014
The University of Chicago Law School (Classroom 5)
1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637

Workshop Overview

Hosted by the Initiative on Islam & Medicine within the Program on Medicine and Religion and the Maclean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago, and co-sponsored by the American Islamic College, the 3-day workshop provides an in-depth introduction to the field of Islamic bioethics and will cover key concepts within Islamic theology, law and ethical frameworks as they relate to bioethics. In addition the participant will gain practical skills and tools that enable them to read Islamic bioethics literature and engage in moral reasoning about clinical ethics cases.  Allied health professionals, academic researchers, bioethicists, chaplains, Imams and policy makers all will leave equipped with an enhanced literacy in Islamic bioethics. 

Workshop Learning Objectives

  1. Conduct a conceptual review of the actors and producers of Islamic bioethics discourse
  2. Introduce the theological and ethico-legal frameworks of the Islamic moral tradition and how they are brought to bear in constructing the field of Islamic bioethics
  3. Describe approaches to carrying out Islamic bioethics-related research and the limitations of particular methods and relevant source-materials

Speakers

Ahsan Arozullah, MD, MPH – Medical Director, Astellas Pharma Global Development and Board of Directors, Darul Qasim Islamic Institute

Issam Eido, PhD – Visiting Instructor of Islamic Studies and Arabic, University of Chicago Divinity School

Ahmed Khitamy MD – Secretary, National Committee for Bioethics, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman

Shaykh Amin Kholwadia – Director, Darul Qasim Islamic Institute

Katherine Klima DNP – Former Ethics Fellow,  Maclean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics; Former Doctoral Research Trainee, Initiative on Islam and Medicine

Elham Mireshghi, PhD(c)Assistant Course Director  – Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine

Aasim I. Padela, MD, MScCourse Director – Director, the Initiative on Islam & Medicine; Faculty, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics; Assistant Professor of Medicine, The University of Chicago

Faisal Qazi DO – Assistant Professor of Neurology, Western University of the Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine, Adjunct Professor of Islamic Bioethics, Bayan College, Claremont Lincoln University

Jawad Qureshi PhD(c) – Instructor of Arabic, American Islamic College; PhD Candidate the University of Chicago Divinity School

Daniel Sulmasy MD PhD – Director, Program on Medicine and Religion, Associate Director, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, Professor of Medicine and the Divinity School, The University of Chicago

Schedule

Saturday 8/2

Break (10:30-10:45)

  • 11:00-12:30pm – The Tools of the Islamic Ethico-Legal Tradition (Usul) – Qureshi
  • 12:30-1:30pm – Networking/Break Lunch Provided
  • 1:30-2:30pm – Lived Experiences of Muslim Bioethics in Muslim Societies: Mireshghi & Khitamy

Break (3:15-3:30)

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Intervention Study

Qualitative Study and Interviews

Fifty Muslim multiethnicity women (40 years old and above) were interviewed (6 focused group) and 19 in individual interviews. We found religious beliefs did informed mammography intention, which includes (1) the perceived religious duty to care for one’s health, (2) religious practices as methods of disease prevention, (3) fatalistic notions about health, and (4) comfort with gender concordant health care.

Quantitative Study and survey

240, 40 years of age or older, were surveyed (72 respondents were Arab, 71 South Asian, 59 African American, and 38 from another ethnicity). We found that positive religious coping and perceived religious discrimination in health settings significantly (negatively) affected mammogram adherence among Muslim women in Chicago.

American Cancer Society mammogram recommendations

Mammogram recommendation for women at average risk or breast cancer

  • Women between 40 and 44 have a choice to have a mammography every year.
  • Women 45 to 54 should get mammograms every year.
  • Women 55 and older can switch to a mammogram every other year, or they can choose to continue yearly mammograms.

3R model

Reframing “switch train tracks”
  • Keep the barriers belief intact but change the way one thinks about it so it is consonant with the desired health behavior
  • Normalizes the barrier belief
Reprioritize: “show them a better train”
  • Introduce a new belief and create higher valence for it than the barrier belief
  • Normalization of the barrier belief is optional
Reform: “breakdown the train carriage”
  • Negate the barrier belief by demonstrating its faults by appealing to authority structures

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