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Medical management of infant intersex: the juridico-ethical dilemma of contemporary Islamic legal response

Technological advances in the field of medicine and health sciences not only manipulate the normal human body and sex but also provide for surgical and hormonal management of hermaphroditism (intersexuality). Consequently, sex assignment surgery has not only become a standard care for babies bor...

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Main Authors: Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah, Abdul Majid, Mahmood Zuhdi
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Published: The Joint Publication Board of Zygon 2015
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KBP173.25 Islamic law and other disciplines or subjects
KBP470 Law reform. Criticism. Tanzim
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spelling my.iium.irep.457472017-11-28T09:45:12Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/45747/ Medical management of infant intersex: the juridico-ethical dilemma of contemporary Islamic legal response Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah Abdul Majid, Mahmood Zuhdi KBP173.25 Islamic law and other disciplines or subjects KBP470 Law reform. Criticism. Tanzim Technological advances in the field of medicine and health sciences not only manipulate the normal human body and sex but also provide for surgical and hormonal management of hermaphroditism (intersexuality). Consequently, sex assignment surgery has not only become a standard care for babies born with genital abnormalities in the West but even in some Muslim states. On the positive side, it goes a long way in saving children born with abnormal genitalia from numerous legal interdictions of the pre-sex corrective surgery. Nevertheless, the larger ethical and legal questions that medical management of genital abnormality raises to some extent have not been adequately appreciated by contemporary Muslim responses. This article, therefore, in principle argues against surgical management of intersexuality during early infancy from the Islamic legal perspective. The Joint Publication Board of Zygon 2015-12 Article REM application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/45747/1/our_art_zygon.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/45747/4/45747_Medical%20management%20of%20infant%20intersex_SCOPUS.pdf Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah and Abdul Majid, Mahmood Zuhdi (2015) Medical management of infant intersex: the juridico-ethical dilemma of contemporary Islamic legal response. Journal of Religion & Science, 50 (4). pp. 809-829. ISSN 1467-9744 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zygo.12220/abstract;jsessionid=61951C2CA311D2E1BFC41459B0C48F71.f04t02?userIsAuthenticated=false&deniedAccessCustomisedMessage= 10.1111/zygo.12220
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topic KBP173.25 Islamic law and other disciplines or subjects
KBP470 Law reform. Criticism. Tanzim
spellingShingle KBP173.25 Islamic law and other disciplines or subjects
KBP470 Law reform. Criticism. Tanzim
Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah
Abdul Majid, Mahmood Zuhdi
Medical management of infant intersex: the juridico-ethical dilemma of contemporary Islamic legal response
description Technological advances in the field of medicine and health sciences not only manipulate the normal human body and sex but also provide for surgical and hormonal management of hermaphroditism (intersexuality). Consequently, sex assignment surgery has not only become a standard care for babies born with genital abnormalities in the West but even in some Muslim states. On the positive side, it goes a long way in saving children born with abnormal genitalia from numerous legal interdictions of the pre-sex corrective surgery. Nevertheless, the larger ethical and legal questions that medical management of genital abnormality raises to some extent have not been adequately appreciated by contemporary Muslim responses. This article, therefore, in principle argues against surgical management of intersexuality during early infancy from the Islamic legal perspective.
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author Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah
Abdul Majid, Mahmood Zuhdi
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title Medical management of infant intersex: the juridico-ethical dilemma of contemporary Islamic legal response
title_short Medical management of infant intersex: the juridico-ethical dilemma of contemporary Islamic legal response
title_full Medical management of infant intersex: the juridico-ethical dilemma of contemporary Islamic legal response
title_fullStr Medical management of infant intersex: the juridico-ethical dilemma of contemporary Islamic legal response
title_full_unstemmed Medical management of infant intersex: the juridico-ethical dilemma of contemporary Islamic legal response
title_sort medical management of infant intersex: the juridico-ethical dilemma of contemporary islamic legal response
publisher The Joint Publication Board of Zygon
publishDate 2015
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/45747/1/our_art_zygon.pdf
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