Aasim I Padela
Biographic Data
| ID | 134310 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aasim I Padela |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aasim I |
| FAMILY NAME | Padela |
| SIGNATURE | PADELA A I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4834-2889 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Religiosity and Job‐ and Health-related Outcomes
Using results from a survey of Muslim physicians in the United States (n = 264), this study examines the role of religious discrimination in the relationship between religiosity and job‐ and health-related outcomes. Multiple mediation models were constructed using structural equation modeling with religiosity predicting job‐ and health-related outcomes, and the mediators were related to religious discrimination and accommodations. The findings in…
Biases and Limitations of Fatāwā Research in the Field of Islamic Bioethics
Assisting, Replicating, or Autonomously Acting? An Ethical Framework for Integrating AI Tools and Technologies in Healthcare
Artificial intelligence (AI)‐based technologies are increasingly being utilized, tested, and integrated into conventional healthcare delivery. Technological opportunities, ranging from machine‐learning‐based data analysis tools to large language model‐based virtual healthcare assistants, offer significant potential to enhance healthcare access and improve outcomes. Researchers have discussed potential benefits, including improved resource allocat…
Considering Homeomorphic Equivalency in Engaging Islamic and Global Bioethical Traditions
Relationships Between Religious Commitment, Workplace Experiences, and Professional and Psychological Outcomes Among U.S. Muslim Physicians
Alcohol and the Medical Community
Alcohol is a class 1 carcinogen, and its use, at any level, is not safe for health. Despite this, alcohol remains strongly mixed into medical culture and is often served free at medical‐community events. This presents numerous ethical concerns. First, the funding of alcohol‐centered events by the medical community reinforces alcohol consumption as a coping mechanism for stress, perpetuates the perceived need for alcohol for socialization, and fal…
Associations Between Every day and Medical Setting-Based Discrimination and Religious and Sociodemographic Characteristics of Muslim Americans
Tackling ‘Big’ questions at the bioscience-Islam interface
Big Questions' about the human being regarding its origin, nature, malleability, culpability and uniqueness lie at the core of the religion-science dialogue. Modern science discoveries have spurred Muslim intellectuals and students to grapple with these fundamental questions anew. In this study, we measured the efficacy of a novel curriculum at the intersection of bioscience and Islam tailored for American Muslim high school students. The educati…
Predictors of Perceived Discrimination in Medical Settings Among Muslim Women in the USA
A religious minority tax in healthcare? Insights from Muslim American physicians
Physicians from marginalized racial, ethnic, sexual, and gender backgrounds often encounter adversity, ranging from overt discrimination to subtle microaggressions, which impacts their professional careers. Consequently, concerted efforts to promote workforce diversity in healthcare have begun to tackle these issues. In this study, we further these efforts by uplifting the voices of a minority religious community, Muslim physicians, and their exp…
Cancer Screening Differences Among Muslims and Non-Muslims
A Pilot Efficacy Trial to Educate Muslim Americans about the Islamic Bioethical Perspectives in End-of-Life Healthcare
I’m not Alone; He will be There for Me”
Islam and Biomedicine
The Impact of Practicing Both Medicine and Religion
Purpose: Workplace discrimination is receiving increased attention within health care; however, most research focuses on racial/ethnic, sexual, and gender identities. 1–3 With Muslim Americans comprising over 5% of the physician workforce and an ongoing sociopolitical climate of Islamophobia, it is critical to investigate how Muslim identity relates to physician experiences in academic medicine. In this study, we assessed the relationships betwee…
Maqāṣidī Models for an “Islamic” Medical Ethics
The maqāṣid al-shari‘ah are championed as tools to address contemporary societal issues. Indeed, it is argued that maqāṣidbased solutions to present-day economic, political, and cultural challenges authentically bridge the moral vision of Islam with modernity. Advocates also stress that maqāṣidī models overcome shortcomings within fiqh-based strategies by bypassing their over-reliance on scriptural and legal hermeneutics, their dated views on soc…
Complexities of biomedicine, theology and politics in Islamic bioethical deliberation over female genital procedures
Professor Richard Shweder’s target article, ‘The prosecution of Dawoodi Bohra women: some reasonable doubts’, lays bare the ways in which political motivations influence moral, ethical and legal deliberations over female genital cutting/circumcision in society. He argues that activist stakeholders deploy a provocative lexicon and biased clinical data in order to silence dissenting views about, and legally restrict the practice of, female genital …
Empathy and Attending to Patient Religion/Spirituality
Attending to patient religion and spirituality (R/S) generates controversy. Some worry that because physicians lack formal religious training they may overstep their expertise, while others argue that physicians who are attentive to patient R/S provide higher quality of care. We aimed to describe American Muslim physicians’ perspectives and practices regarding R/S discussions, and how physician characteristics correlate with these. A questionnair…
Bioethical insights from the Fiqh Council of North America's recent ruling on medical cannabis
Engaging Muslim Americans for Research on Community Health
A multi-modality capacity-building program can cultivate grassroots motivation and skills for addressing the religious dimensions of health challenges through mosque communities. Yet, for such efforts to translate into specific initiatives strategic partnerships between research funders, health care systems, and mosque community leaders is needed. Our experience suggests that holistic approaches to Muslim health concerns are desired by community …
Islam and Biomedicine
Causes and Means of Healing
The Development and Validation of a Modesty Measure for Diverse Muslim Populations
Contextualizing the role of religion in the global bioethics discourse
Changing Mammography-Related Beliefs Among American Muslim Women
The Association of Perceived Abuse and Discrimination After September 11, 2001, With Psychological Distress, Level of Happiness, and Health Status Among Arab Americans
Objectives. We assessed the prevalence of perceived abuse and discrimination among Arab American adults after September 11, 2001, and associations between abuse or discrimination and psychological distress, level of happiness, and health status. Methods. We gathered data from a face-to-face survey administered in 2003 to a representative, population-based sample of Arab American adults residing in the greater Detroit area. Results. Overall, 25% o…
Perceptions of obstetrical interventions and female genital cutting
Our work yields new insights into Somali reproductive healthcare through Somali men, namely: strong matriarchal support of FGC, discomfort in men's presence during delivery, and a strong aversion to cesarean delivery. Our findings support the need for advocacy to engage Somali women, their partners/spouses, and health-care providers in facilitating greater continuity of care, building greater trust as men become engaged throughout the spectrum of…
American Muslim Perceptions of Healing
American Muslims represent a growing and diverse community. Efforts at promoting cultural competence, enhancing cross-cultural communication skills, and improving community health must account for the religio-cultural frame through which American Muslims view healing. Using a community-based participatory research model, we conducted 13 focus groups at area mosques in southeast Michigan to explore American Muslim views on healing and to identify …
Developing religiously-tailored health messages for behavioral change
Medical Experts & Islamic Scholars Deliberating over Brain Death
Complexities of biomedicine, theology and politics in Islamic bioethical deliberation over female genital procedures
Professor Richard Shweder’s target article, ‘The prosecution of Dawoodi Bohra women: some reasonable doubts’, lays bare the ways in which political motivations influence moral, ethical and legal deliberations over female genital cutting/circumcision in society. He argues that activist stakeholders deploy a provocative lexicon and biased clinical data in order to silence dissenting views about, and legally restrict the practice of, female genital …
Using CBPR for Health Research in American Muslim Mosque Communities
Background: American Muslims are understudied in health research, and there are few studies documenting community-based participatory research (CBPR) efforts among American Muslim mosque communities. Objectives: We highlight lessons learned from a CBPR partnership that explored the health care beliefs, behaviors, and challenges of American Muslims. Methods: We established a collaboration between the University of Michigan and four Muslim-focused …
The Association of Perceived Abuse and Discrimination After September 11, 2001, With Psychological Distress, Level of Happiness, and Health Status Among Arab Americans
Objectives. We assessed the prevalence of perceived abuse and discrimination among Arab American adults after September 11, 2001, and associations between abuse or discrimination and psychological distress, level of happiness, and health status. Methods. We gathered data from a face-to-face survey administered in 2003 to a representative, population-based sample of Arab American adults residing in the greater Detroit area. Results. Overall, 25% o…
The Role of Imams in American Muslim Health
Traditional Healing Practices Among American Muslims
Medical Experts & Islamic Scholars Deliberating over Brain Death
American Muslim Perceptions of Healing
American Muslims represent a growing and diverse community. Efforts at promoting cultural competence, enhancing cross-cultural communication skills, and improving community health must account for the religio-cultural frame through which American Muslims view healing. Using a community-based participatory research model, we conducted 13 focus groups at area mosques in southeast Michigan to explore American Muslim views on healing and to identify …
Islamic Verdicts in Health Policy Discourse
In this article, I apply a policy‐oriented applied Islamic bioethics lens to two verdicts on the permissibility of using vaccines with porcine components. I begin by reviewing the decrees and then proceed to describe how they were used by health policy stakeholders. Subsequently, My analysis will highlight aspects of the verdict's ethico‐legal arguments in order to illustrate salient legal concepts that must be accounted for when using Islamic ve…
Religion and Disparities
Global health experiences of U.S. Physicians
BACKGROUND: Interest and participation in global health activities among U.S. medical trainees has increased sharply in recent decades, yet the global health activities of physicians who have completed residency training remain understudied. Our objectives were to assess associations between individual characteristics and patterns of post-residency global health activities across the domains of health policy, education, and research. METHODS: Cro…
Perceptions of obstetrical interventions and female genital cutting
Our work yields new insights into Somali reproductive healthcare through Somali men, namely: strong matriarchal support of FGC, discomfort in men's presence during delivery, and a strong aversion to cesarean delivery. Our findings support the need for advocacy to engage Somali women, their partners/spouses, and health-care providers in facilitating greater continuity of care, building greater trust as men become engaged throughout the spectrum of…
Associations Between Religion-Related Factors and Breast Cancer Screening Among American Muslims
Our Bodies Belong to God
Journal Article Our Bodies Belong to God: Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt By Sherine Hamdy Get access Our Bodies Belong to God: Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in EgyptBy Sherine Hamdy (London, and Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2012), xxvi + 255 pp., notes, glossary, references, index. Price PB £19.95. EAN 978–0520271760. Aasim I. Padela Aasim I. Pa…
[ R e]considering Respect for Persons in a Globalizing World
Contemporary clinical ethics was founded on principlism, and the four principles: respect for autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence and justice, remain dominant in medical ethics discourse and practice. These principles are held to be expansive enough to provide the basis for the ethical practice of medicine across cultures. Although principlism remains subject to critique and revision, the four‐principle model continues to be taught and applied …
Using CBPR for Health Research in American Muslim Mosque Communities
Background: American Muslims are understudied in health research, and there are few studies documenting community-based participatory research (CBPR) efforts among American Muslim mosque communities. Objectives: We highlight lessons learned from a CBPR partnership that explored the health care beliefs, behaviors, and challenges of American Muslims. Methods: We established a collaboration between the University of Michigan and four Muslim-focused …
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Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action - Volume 9, Issue 1, Spring 2015
Muslim Perspectives on the American Healthcare System
This paper compares the discursive frames utilised by several national American Muslim organisations to craft an "Islamic" argument for healthcare reform via an expansion of health insurance coverage in the United States with Islamic ethico-legal opinions (fatwas) of U.S.-based jurists regarding the permissibility of purchasing health insurance. I analyse the differing ways in which these producers of "Islamic bioethics" material ground their arg…
Predictors of Physician Recommendation for Ethically Controversial Medical Procedures
The Perspectives of Islamic Jurists on the Brain Death as Legal Death in Islam
The Types of Trust Involved in American Muslim Healthcare Decisions
Social Responsibility and the State's Duty to provide Healthcare
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's ( UNESCO ) Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights asserts that governments are morally obliged to promote health and to provide access to quality healthcare, essential medicines and adequate nutrition and water to all members of society. According to UNESCO , this obligation is grounded in a moral commitment to promoting fundamental human rights and emerges from the princip…
Acceptability of Friday Sermons as a Modality for Health Promotion and Education
American Muslim Physician Attitudes Toward Organ Donation
Developing religiously-tailored health messages for behavioral change
The Development and Validation of a Modesty Measure for Diverse Muslim Populations
Contextualizing the role of religion in the global bioethics discourse
Changing Mammography-Related Beliefs Among American Muslim Women
Political science (29 works) · Psychology (28 works) · Medicine (27 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (20 works) · Islam (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Health care (15 works) · Nursing (13 works)