Author

Yusuf Lenfest

  • Animal Research

    Orcas, Dolphins, and Whales: non-human persons and animal rights

    By Yusuf Lenfest With few exceptions, most cultures put homo sapiens at the center or the apex of creation. Humans, it is generally believed, are distinguished from other animals by our self-awareness and our ability…

    Orcas, Dolphins, and Whales: non-human persons and animal rights

  • Biotechnology

    Psychoneuroimmunology and the mind’s impact on health

    By Yusuf Lenfest If you are a skier like me, you likely revelled in watching the alpine skiing events during this years’ Olympic Winter Games held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Having raced myself when I…

    Psychoneuroimmunology and the mind’s impact on health

  • Doctor-Patient Relationship

    Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry

    By Yusuf Lenfest Professor Robert Sapolsky, a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University, rightly identifies depression as a particularly crippling disease insofar as it affects one’s very response mechanisms and modes of coping,…

    Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry

  • Disability

    Illness, Disability, and Dignity

    By Yusuf Lenfest Medicine is meant to heal our ailments and treat our illnesses. Our deep knowledge of the body and the numerous mechanisms that contribute or correlate to good health is considered a triumph…

    Illness, Disability, and Dignity

  • Bioethics

    Islam and the Beginning of Human Life

    By Yusuf Lenfest When does human life begin? One of the more contentious bioethical and legal issues is about the beginning of human life. Nor is it difficult grasp why, for beyond political rhetoric it…

    Islam and the Beginning of Human Life

  • Bioethics

    Bioethics in Islam: Principles, Perspectives, Comparisons

    By Yusuf Lenfest An important questions in Islam, recurrent across time and space, is whether Islamic political theory recognizes rights claims against the state as distinct from rights claims against other members of the community.…

    Bioethics in Islam: Principles, Perspectives, Comparisons

  • Global Health

    Religion, Health, and Medicine: the Dialectic of Embedded Social Systems

    By Yusuf Lenfest The philosopher in me understands that there are universal principles in logic, mathematics, and in basic scientific tenets such as the law of gravity. Be that as it may, the historian in…

    Religion, Health, and Medicine: the Dialectic of Embedded Social Systems