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The Initiative on Islam and Medicine (II&M) is a leading research center at the intersection of Islam and Biomedicine. We produce groundbreaking scholarship that impacts the lives of Muslim patients, healthcare providers and religious leaders, using an innovative approach that draws insights from a diverse set of disciplinary experts from across the theological, social, and biomedical sciences.

As a platform for impactful research, tailored education, and creative dialogue, II&M’s focuses on:

Recent Publications

Patient Navigation Based Care-delivery to Reduce Inequities in Cancer Care Among Immigrants and Refugees: A Commentary on the Successes and the Unmet Needs

Complexities of biomedicine, theology and politics in Islamic bioethical deliberation over female genital procedures: a reply to ‘The prosecution of Dawoodi Bohra women’ by Richard Shweder

Cancer Screening Differences Among Muslims and Non-Muslims: Insights from the Chicago Multiethnic Prevention and Surveillance Study

Cross-Cultural and Religious Critiques of Informed Consent

Muslim Americans' Views on Making Organ Donation Decisions in the Department of Motor Vehicles Setting

Porcine‐derived medical therapies for SARS‐CoV‐

Engaging Muslim Americans for Research on Community Health: Lessons Learned from a PCOR Capacity-Building Program

Muslim Perspectives on the American Healthcare System

Muslim Doctors and Islamic Bioethics

Jurists, Physicians, & Other Experts in Dialogue

Islamic Juridical Principle of Dire Necessity & Its Application to the Field of Biomedical Interventions

Islamic medical ethics: a primer

A Mosque-Based Qualitative Study on American Muslim Women's Organ Donation Beliefs

A Return to Virtue

A Review of “Disability in Islamic Law”

A Saudi family making end-of-life decisions in the PICU

Abortion in Hanafi Law

Acceptability of Friday Sermons as a Modality for Health Promotion and Education

Adab and its Significance for an Islamic Medical Ethics.

A Saudi family making end-of-life decisions in the PICU

ADD KNOW-ledge to your Decision: Making Don't Know ASK Do Practical Guideline 4 Ethical Clinical Decision-Making in Scenarios with Scarce Resources During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Allied Muslim Healthcare Professional Perspectives on Death by Neurologic Criteria

American Muslim Health Disparities: The State of the Medline Literature

American Muslim perceptions of healing: Key agents in healing and their roles

American Muslim Physician Attitudes Toward Organ Donation

An Overlooked “Inner” Dimension to an “Islamic” Medical Ethics

Are Emergency Medicine Residents Prepared to Meet the Ethical Challenges of Clinical Practice? Findings from an Exploratory National Survey

American Muslim perceptions of healing: Key agents in healing and their roles

American Muslim Physician Attitudes Toward Organ Donation

An Overlooked “Inner” Dimension to an “Islamic” Medical Ethics

Are Emergency Medicine Residents Prepared to Meet the Ethical Challenges of Clinical Practice? Findings from an Exploratory National Survey

Associations Between Religion-Related Factors and Breast Cancer Screening Among American Muslims

Associations Between Religion-Related Factors and Cervical Cancer Screening Among Muslims in Greater Chicago

Attitudes towards the Resuscitation of Periviable Infants: A National Survey of American Muslim Physicians

Beyond Preservation The Higher Objectives of Islamic Law and the Enhancement of Life

Bioethical Insights from the Fiqh Council of North America's Recent Ruling on Medical Cannabis

Brain death: the challenges of translating medical science into Islamic bioethical discourse

Brain death in Islamic ethico-legal deliberation: challenges for applied Islamic bioethics

Can you take care of my mother? Reflections on cultural competency and clinical accommodation

Qualitative Research AM Perceptions Of Healing Key Agents In Healing & Their_Roles 2012

The Role Of Imams In AM Health Perspectives Of Community Leaders In SEMICH

Traditional Healing Practices Among AMs Perceptions Of Community Leaders In SEMICH

Religious Values & Healthcare Accommodations AM Community

Caring for Muslim Patients with the Help of an App

Causes and Means of Healing: An Islamic Ontological Perspective

Challenges and opportunities of US and Arab collaborations in health services research: a case study from Qatar

Changing Global Policy to Deliver Safe, Equitable, and Affordable Care for Women’s Cancers

Changing Mammography-Related Beliefs Among American Muslim Women: Findings from a Religiously-Tailored Mosque-Based Intervention

Commentary: Religious communities are critical in the fight against COVID-19

Conceptualizing the Human Being: Insights from the Genethics Discourse and Implications for Islamic Bioethics

Conference Proceedings of the International Conference: Health Related Issues and Islamic Normativity

Designing academic career trajectories: identifying internal assets and evaluating external challenges

Developing religiously-tailored health messages for behavioral change: Introducing the reframe, reprioritize, and reform ( " 3R " ) model

Dire Necessity and Transformation: Entry-Points for Modern Science in Islamic Bioethical Assessment of Porcine Products in Vaccines

Donation after cardiac death and the emergency department: ethical issues

Emergency medical practice: advancing cultural competence and reducing health care disparities

Empathy and Attending to Patient Religion/ Spirituality: Findings from a National Survey of Muslim Physicians

Ethical Obligations and Clinical Goals in End-of-Life Care: Deriving a Quality-of-Life Construct Based on the Islamic Concept of Accountability Before God (Taklīf)

Ethics In Action (Case)

Factors associated with positive attitudes toward organ donation in Arab Americans

FACULTY OF RESPONSIBILITY: A Key Concept to Cope with The Ethical Challenges Medical Students Face

Female Genital Cutting (FGC) and the Cultural Boundaries of Medical Practice

Framing the Mind–Body Problem in Contemporary Neuroscientific and Sunni Islamic Theological Discourse

Genethics and Human Reproduction: Religious Perspectives in the Academic Bioethics Literature

Islamic Goals for Clinical Treatment at the End of Life: The Concept of Accountability Before God (Taklīf) Remains Useful: Response to Open Peer Commentaries

GenEthics and Religion (REVIEW)

Global health experiences of U.S. Physicians: a mixed methods survey of clinician-researchers and health policy leaders

Helping Those You Know - The possibilities of deceased directed donation

Hymenoplasty and Muslim Patients: Islamic Ethico-Legal Perspectives

Industry Relations With Emergency Medicine Graduate Medical Education Programs

Informing American Muslims about Living Donation Through Tailored Health Education: A Randomized Controlled Cross-Over Trial Evaluating Increase in Biomedical and Religious Knowledge

Islamic Bioethical Perspectives on Gender Identity for Intersex Patients

Islamic Bioethical Positions on Organ Donation and Transplantation: Stressing Rigor and Caution in Fatwa Reviews

Islamic bioethics: between sacred law, lived experiences, and state authority

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