Islamic Biomedical Ethics: Principles and ApplicationBiomedical ethics is a burgeoning academic field with complex and far reaching consequences. Whereas in Western secular bioethics this subject falls within larger ethical theories and applications (utilitarianism, deontology, teleology, and the like), Islamic biomedical ethics has yet to find its natural academic home in Islamic studies. In this pioneering work, Abdulaziz Sachedina a scholar with life long academic training in Islamic law relates