Islam and Biomedicine

2022
ISBN: 978-3-030-53800-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, Band 137, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 670 g

Reihe: Philosophy and Medicine

This book showcases multidisciplinary research at the intersection of the Islamic tradition and biomedicine. Within this broad area of scholarship, this book considers how Islamic theological constructs align with the science and practice of medicine, and in so doing offer resources for bridging the challenges of competing ontological visions, varied epistemic frameworks, and different theologies of life and living among the bodies of knowledge. By bringing together theologians, medical practitioners and intellectual historians, the book spurs deeper conversations at the intersection of these fields and provides fundamental resources for further dedicated research.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Padela, Aasim I.

al-Akiti, Afifi

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Taking On the Ghazalian Challenge of Integrating Science and Theology with Islam and Biomedicine.- Medical Epistemology in Arabic Discourse from Greek Sources to the Arabic Commentary Tradition.- The Piety of Health: The Making of Health in Islamic Religious Narratives.- The Concept of a Human Microcosm: Exploring Possibilities for a Synthesis between Traditional and Modern Biomedicine.- Islam in Engagement with Life, Health and Medicine.- When Does a Human Fetus Become Human?.- At the Meeting of the Two Seas: The Value of Integrating Philosophy of Science and Religion in Determining the Nature and Purpose of the Human Self.- Muslim Values and End-of-Life Healthcare Decision-making: Values, Norms and Ontologies in Conflict?.- Intersection between Science, Philosophy and the Sunni Theological and Legal discourse in Defining Medical Death.- Islam and Science: Deepening the Discourse.- Science through an Islamic Epistemological Framework.- Interface between Islamic Law and Science: Legal Construction of Science in Light of Islamic Bioethical Discourses on Genetic and Reproductive Technologies.- Integrating Science and Scripture to Produce Moral Knowledge: Assessing Human Interests and Necessities in Islamic Bioethics.

Über Autor(innen)

Dato’ Dr Afifi al-Akiti is the Kuwait Fellow in Islamic Studies at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, and teaches in the Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. Dato’ Afifi is trained as a theologian in both the Islamic and Western traditions. His areas of expertise are Islamic theology, law, and science. He has worked on several BBC documentaries, including the award-winning Science and Islam (2009). Since 2010, Dato’ Dr Afifi has been listed in The Muslim 500: The World’s 500 Most Influential Muslims.

Dr Aasim I. Padela is a clinician, health researcher, and bioethicist at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He utilizes methodologies from health services research, religious studies, and comparative ethics to examine the encounter of Islam with contemporary biomedicine through the lives of Muslim patients and clinicians, and in the writings of Islamic scholars. His scholarship develops intellectual frameworks through which Islamic theology (both moral and scholastic) can engage with contemporary natural and social scientific data.