Full Description
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.
Contents
Taking On the Ghazālian 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 Sunnī 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.
