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J Relig Health (2017) 56:284293
DOI 10.1007/s10943-016-0283-y
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Zeenat Hussain1 Edyta Kuzian1,2 Naveed Hussain3
Published online: 8 July 2016 Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016
Abstract Gender representation in Islamic bioethics research in the twenty-rst century has not been studied. To study temporal trends in representation of female subjects in Islamic bioethics research, PubMed-listed publications on Islamic bioethics from years 2000 to 2014 were reviewed for gender participation in human subjects research. There were temporal trends of increasing publications of Islamic bioethics-related human subjects research (64 papers over 15 years; R2 = 0.72; p \ 0.0004). Female subjects were well represented with a trend toward increasing participation. This was true for women from Muslim-majority countries even in non-gender-focused studies over the past 15 years.
Keywords Female subjects Bioethics Human subjects Gender Islamic Muslim
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Awarded Best Poster Presentation at the World Association of Medicine and Law (WAML) Meeting in Coimbra, Portugal. August 5, 2015.
& Naveed Hussain
1 Department of Liberal Studies, New York University, 726 Broadway, New York, NY 10003, USA
2 Department of Philosophy, Fordham University, 441 E. Fordham Road, Collins Hall 101, Bronx, NY 10458, USA
3 Department of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, 263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT 06030, USA
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Introduction
The participation of women as subjects in any type of human research studies has been an issue worldwide. Even in the USA, the exclusion of women from clinical research was not addressed as an issue until 1985 when the US Public Health Service Task Force on Womens Health Issues reported that this may be a major factor in compromising the quality of health care and information received by women (Anonymous 1985). Even after publication of guidelines by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) urging inclusion of women as subjects in research, the General Accounting Ofce report in 1990 disclosed a lack of inclusion of women in research studies (Annonymous 1990). Subsequently, new guidelines were released by the NIH and these became law with the publication the NIH Revitalization Act in the Federal Register in 1994 (Anonymous 1994)....