Muslim Perspectives on the American Healthcare System: The Discursive Framing of “Islamic” Bioethical Discourse


This paper compares the discursive frames utilised by several national American Muslim organisations to craft an “Islamic” argument for healthcare reform via an expansion of health insurance coverage in the United States with Islamic ethico-legal opinions (fatwas) of U.S.-based jurists regarding the...

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1. VerfasserIn: Padela, Aasim I. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Brill 2015
In: Die Welt des Islams
Jahr: 2015, Band: 55, Heft: 3/4, Seiten: 413-447
weitere Schlagwörter:B fiqh
 theology
 critical discourse analysis (CDA)
 ethics
 health insurance

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Zusammenfassung:This paper compares the discursive frames utilised by several national American Muslim organisations to craft an “Islamic” argument for healthcare reform via an expansion of health insurance coverage in the United States with Islamic ethico-legal opinions (fatwas) of U.S.-based jurists regarding the permissibility of purchasing health insurance. I analyse the differing ways in which these producers of “Islamic bioethics” material ground their arguments and draw on vocabulary from other discourses. The paper closes by reflecting upon the socio-political undercurrents that may contribute to the differences and disconnections between the ways in which these bioethics stakeholders produce their outputs and by arguing that further developing the field of Islamic bioethics will require concerted multidisciplinary engagements that clarify the distinctive nature of Islamic norms.

ISSN:1570-0607
Enthält:In: Die Welt des Islams
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700607-05534p07