Tehran University of Medical Sciences Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine 2008-0387 2 0 2009 05 31 35 35 Farzaneh Zahedi Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Centre, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Bagher Larijani Medical Ethics and History of Medicine Research Centre, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Centre, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 2015 10 04 2021 01 11 Judgment on rightness and wrongness of beliefs and behaviors is a main issue in bioethics. Over centuries, big philosophers and ethicists have been discussing the suitable tools to determine which act is morally sound and which one is not. Emerging the contemporary bioethics in the West has resulted in a misconception that absolute westernized principles would be appropriate tools for ethical decision making in different cultures. We will discuss this issue by introducing a clinical case. Considering various cultural beliefs around the world, though it is not logical to consider all of them ethically acceptable, we can gather on some general fundamental principles instead of going to the extremes of relativism and absolutism. Islamic teachings, according to the presented evidence in this paper, fall in with this idea. https://jmehm.tums.ac.ir/index.php/jmehm/article/view/35 https://jmehm.tums.ac.ir/index.php/jmehm/article/download/35/20