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From an Islamic bioethical vantage point, jurists offer two opinions. The first is that the surgery is always impermissible. The second is that although the surgery is generally impermissible, it can become licit when the risks of not having postcoital bleeding harm are sufficiently great.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Clinical Implications<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Patient requests for hymenoplasty should be approached by surgeons with a willingness to understand patients' social contexts and reasons for pursuing the procedure and are ethically justified by leading Islamic jurists in particular circumstances.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Strengths and Limitations<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>This article presents emic and etic perspectives on hymenoplasty in Muslim patients, although our review of the Islamic bioethical stances might have missed some juridical opinions and important considerations. Further, Muslims, even devout ones, might not be beholden to Islamic juridical views on medical procedures and thus physicians should not make assumptions about the rationale for, and ethical views of, patients seeking hymenoplasty.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>This article provides critical insight into how Muslim patients, and Islamic jurists, evaluate the moral contexts of hymenoplasty.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jsxm.2017.06.005","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,7,29]],"date-time":"2017-07-29T02:00:20Z","timestamp":1501293620000},"page":"1003-1010","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/elsevier_cm_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Hymenoplasty and Muslim Patients: Islamic Ethico-Legal Perspectives"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Mohammad H.","family":"Bawany","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry , Rochester, NY , USA"},{"name":"The Initiative on Islam and Medicine, University of Chicago , Chicago, IL , USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Aasim I.","family":"Padela","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Initiative on Islam and Medicine, University of Chicago , Chicago, IL , USA"},{"name":"Section of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago , Chicago, IL , USA"},{"name":"Maclean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics , Chicago, IL , USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,8,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023011111054437100_bib1","article-title":"The virginity industry. 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