Islamic bioethics of pain medication: an effective response to mercy argument

• Main Author: Malik, Mohammad Manzoor
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bangladesh Bioethics Society (BBS) 2012
• Subjects: BJ1188 Religious ethics; BJ1725 Ethics of social groups, classes, etc. Professional ethics; BL Religion
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/25635/1/philomalik_painmedication.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/25635/; http://www.banglajol.info/index.php/BIOETHICS/article/view/11700

Pain medication is one of the responses to the mercy argument that utilitarian ethicists use for justifying active euthanasia on the grounds of prevention of cruelty and appeal to beneficence. The researcher reinforces the significance of pain medication in meeting this challenge and considers it th...