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Recent advances in medicine have created many ethical problems. These ethical problems confront physicians, health planners and religious leaders. Religious people are usually in a dilemma, since such techniques have no precedent and their opinions are mandatory. Two of the most conflicting issues in the Islamic religion are organ transplantation and the definition of brain death.
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Mahmoud, M.A. (1998). Organ transplantation in Islam. In: Touraine, J.L., Traeger, J., Bétuel, H., Dubernard, J.M., Revillard, J.P., Dupuy, C. (eds) Organ Allocation. Transplantation and Clinical Immunology, vol 30. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4984-6_28
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