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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| Language: | English English |
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The Joint Publication Board of Zygon
2015
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| Summary: | 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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