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Health and Medicine in the Islamic Tradition

Contents:

Foreword by Martin E. Marty ix
Prefatory Note xiii

A Historical Introduction to Islam 1

1. Wellness and Illness in the Islamic World View 11
God, Nature, and Humankind 11
The Social Outlook of the Qur'an 17
The Sources 19

2. The Religious Valuation of Medicine 29
Hadith and Medicine 32
Scientific Medical Tradition and Religious Justification 38

3. The Prophetic Medicine 41
Its Origin and Character 41
Religion and Medicine-as-an-Inexact-Science 49
Dietary Laws 53
Medical Attitudes toward Certain Orthodox Restrictions 55

4. Medical Care 59
The Auqaf (Pious Endowments) 60
Hospitals 66
Medical Clinics 72
Medical Education and Medical Examination 80
Spiritual Medicine 84

5. Medical Ethics 91
Human Dignity 100
The Family 101
Bioethical Issues 106

6. Passages 111
Birth 111
Contraception and Abortion 113
Sexuality 118
Death 125

Epilogue 131

Notes 135

Indexes 143