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UNINA9910590059203321 |
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Islam and biomedicine / / M. Afifi al-Akiti, Aasim I. Padela, editors |
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Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022] |
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©2022 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (329 pages) |
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Philosophy and medicine ; ; Volume 137 |
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Biomedical engineering |
Islam and science |
Medicine - Religious aspects - Islam |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Taking On the Ghazālian Challenge of Integrating Religion and Science in Islam and Biomedicine -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Ghazālian Challenge -- 1.3 The Chapters -- References -- Part I: From Greek Sources to Islamic Conceptions of Health and Biomedicine -- Chapter 2: Medical Epistemology in Arabic Discourse: From Greek Sources to the Arabic Commentary Tradition -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Greek Background -- 2.3 Graeco-Arabic Translations and the Formation of a New Technical Language -- 2.4 Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (d. ca. 313/925), Comprehensive Book -- 2.5 Avicenna (d. 428/1037), Canon of Medicine -- 2.6 Ibn al-Nafīs (d. 687/1288), Commentary on the 'Canon' -- 2.7 ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī (d. 629/1231) -- 2.8 Al-Kilānī (fl. ca. 750s/1350s) -- 2.9 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: The Piety of Health: The Making of Health in Islamic Religious Narratives -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Two Blessings: Health and Free Time -- 3.3 Health and Wealth -- 3.4 Health and Forgiveness -- 3.5 Health and Moderation -- 3.6 Health and Illness -- 3.7 Health and the 'Freedom' from Illness -- 3.8 A Pious Healthy Body -- 3.9 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: The Concept of a Human Microcosm: Exploring Possibilities for a Synthesis of Traditional and Modern Biomedicine -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Human |
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Microcosm as a Hierarchical and Integrated Living System -- 4.3 The Traditional Perfect Man: The Meaning of the Human Prototype -- 4.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Islamic Ethics in Engagement with Life, Health, and Medicine -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Question of First Principles -- 5.3 Axiological Commitments -- 5.4 Teleological Commitments -- 5.5 Cosmological Commitments -- 5.6 Ontological Commitments -- 5.7 Bioethics Versus Medical Ethics -- 5.8 Case Examples -- 5.9 Conclusion -- References. |
Part II: The Meaning of Life and Death -- Chapter 6: When Does a Human Foetus Become Human? -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Infanticide and Abortion in Pre-modern Civilizations -- 6.3 The Qurʼanic Ban on Infanticide -- 6.4 The Birth of Humans in the Qurʼan and Ḥadīth -- 6.4.1 More than a Clot -- 6.4.2 What Begins Life? -- 6.4.3 Rethinking the Stage of Ensoulment -- 6.5 Does Human Life Begin Before Ensoulment? -- 6.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Where the Two Oceans Meet: The Theology of Islam and the Philosophy of Psychiatric Medicine in Exploring the Human Self -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 At the Interface of Medicine and Philosophy: What Is Health and Why Is It Sought? -- 7.2.1 What Is Health? -- 7.2.2 Models of Health and Illness -- 7.2.3 A Holist Perspective: The Biopsychosocial Model -- 7.2.4 Cosmic Holism: The Biopsychosocial Model Through an Islamic Lens -- 7.2.5 A Reductionist Perspective: The Medical Model -- 7.2.6 Limitations of the Medical Model: Why Is Health Sought? -- 7.2.7 At the Interface of Medicine and Religion: What Is the Purpose of Life? -- 7.2.8 A Religious Account of the Nature and Purpose of Life -- 7.2.9 An Islamic Account of the Nature of Life -- 7.2.10 An Islamic Account of the Purpose of Life -- 7.2.11 Why Is Health Sought? -- 7.3 Mind and Soul: At the Interface of Psychiatry, Medicine and Philosophy -- 7.3.1 Self, Soul and Mind -- 7.3.2 Psychiatry and Medicine -- 7.3.3 Psychiatry and the Medical Model -- 7.3.4 The Minimalist Medical Model -- 7.3.5 The Strong Medical Model -- 7.3.6 Reductionism and Strong Model Psychiatry -- 7.3.7 The Limitations of the Strong Medical Model -- 7.3.8 Psychiatry, Emergence and Cognitive Neuroscience -- 7.3.9 Cognitive Neuroscience and Emergence -- 7.3.10 The Interface Between Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychiatry -- 7.3.11 The Mind in Religious Metaphysics. |
7.3.12 Islam and the Nature of the Soul -- 7.3.13 Monist Physicalist Perspectives on the Soul -- 7.3.14 Ibn Sīnā's Dualist Perspective of the Soul -- 7.3.15 A Ghazālian Compromise and the 'Orthodoxification' of Dualism -- 7.3.16 What is the Nature and Purpose of the Self? -- 7.3.17 Mind, Soul and Brain -- 7.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Muslim Values and End-of-Life Healthcare Decision-Making: Values, Norms and Ontologies in Conflict? -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Methodology -- 8.3 Sampling -- 8.4 Ethical Review -- 8.5 Semi-structured Interviews -- 8.6 Framework Analysis -- 8.7 Data Analysis and the Process of Developing the Main Themes -- 8.8 Analysing the Role of Faith -- 8.9 Presenting the Data - How Quotes Were Chosen -- 8.10 Findings -- 8.11 Conclusion -- Appendices -- Appendix 1: Draft Interview Guide for Semi-structured In-depth Interviews with Policy Makers, Healthcare Staff, Muslim Patients, Families, Islamic Scholars, Imams and Chaplains -- Appendix 2: NVivo Version 10 Coding Frame -- Appendix 3: A Schematic of the Coding Framework Used for the Data Presented -- References -- Chapter 9: The Intersection between Science and Sunnī Theological and Legal Discourse in Defining Medical Death -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Investigation of Human Death -- 9.3 The Soul and Integrated Bodily Functioning -- 9.4 Different Kinds of Life -- 9.5 Normative Legal Values and Death -- 9.6 Determining When Death Has Occurred -- 9.7 |
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Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Interfacing Biomedical Knowledge and Islamic Theology -- Chapter 10: Islam and Science: Reorienting the Discourse -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.1.1 Science and Religion -- 10.2 Which Islam? -- 10.3 Which Science? -- 10.4 From Natural Philosophy to Modern Science -- 10.5 A Case Study of Islam and Science -- 10.6 Conclusion -- References. |
Chapter 11: Science in the Framework of Islamic Legal Epistemology: An Exploratory Account -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.1.1 Science and Religion -- 11.2 Islamic Epistemology Between Revelation and Reason -- 11.3 Islamic Legal Epistemology -- 11.4 Interactions Between Science and Islamic Scriptural, Theological, and Legal Epistemologies -- 11.5 Knowledge and Tradition -- 11.5.1 The Curious Case of Shrimp -- 11.5.2 Molecular Reality -- 11.6 Defining Humanity: The Overlap Between Religion and Science -- 11.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: Interface between Islamic Law and Science: Ethico-Legal Construction of Science in Light of Islamic Bioethical Discourses on Genetic and Reproductive Technologies -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Conceptualization of Science in Modern Islamic Discourses -- 12.3 Islamic Law and the Mechanics of Legal Construction -- 12.4 Interface Between Islamic Law and Science -- 12.5 Interplay of Science, Law, and Ethics -- 12.6 Islamic Law and Ethical Gatekeeping of Science Within the Context of Genetic and Reproductive Technologies: Different Modes of Interaction -- 12.7 Scientific Applications Embraced -- 12.8 Scientific Applications Contested -- 12.9 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 13: Integrating Science and Scripture to Produce Moral Knowledge: Assessing Maṣlaḥa and Ḍarūra in Islamic Bioethics and the Case of Organ Donation -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Knowledge: Epistemic Concepts and Relational Schematics -- 13.3 Thomas F. Torrance's Framework -- 13.4 Al-Ghazālī's Division of Knowledge into Ḥuḍūrī (Presential) and Ḥuṣūlī (Attained) -- 13.5 Maṣāliḥ (Human Interests), Mafāsid (Harms) and the Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿa (Higher Objectives of Islamic Law) -- 13.6 The Conceptual Framework and Process Model Synthesized -- 13.7 Maṣlaḥa, Ḍarūra, and the 'Islamic' Bioethics of Organ Donation. |
13.8 An Enhanced Approach to Judging the Moral Status of Organ Donation from an Islamic Perspective -- 13.9 Conclusion -- References -- Index. |
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