Iranian Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine

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Ahmadi G, Elhami A, Baghizadeh R, Moradi H, Motaharinia M. Effect of gender on ethics from viewpoint of feminism and Islam (by looking at effect on moral health). IJMEHM 2017; 10 :291-301
URL: http://ijme.tums.ac.ir/article-1-5701-en.html

Bioethics is an interdisciplinary course which includes public health. The public health is a general concept dealing with ethical, spiritual, cognitive, and physical issues. Ethical health is part of bioethics. This paper analyses the discourse between feminism and Islam regarding the influence of gender on ethics. Considering influence or lack of effect of gender on ethics is the most important difference in Islam and feminism. The essence of the difference is in ontology and epistemology principle of both views. Islam considers God as decisive ethic and ethical behaviours while feminism considers human as ethic decisive. In Islam, gender does not play role in origin of humanity and does not cause perfection or imperfection and strength or weak of being human. However, gender influences ethic and ethical behaviours and causes difference in ethical behaviours between man and woman. But, .in feminism view, gender does not affect not only humanity origin but also ethical issues and behaviours. feminism granting ethical similarity between men and women overlooks  ethic-gender roles leading to creation of a system that makes  man and woman  responsible for  and tends to  Bigender by proposing  gender similarity  between men and women ; this attitude  has unethical outcomes and affects  ethical health. This paper aimed to explain Islamic view (Quran and traditions) and outcomes of feminism view about gender effect on ethic along with investigating different sects of feminism.