Overview
- Brings together theologians, physicians, and intellectual historians
- Represents an original, serious, attempt to integrate theological, moral and epistemic frameworks
- Provides a holistic approach to lay the foundations for bridging the bodies of knowledge of Islam and biomedicine
Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 137)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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From Greek Sources to Islamic Conceptions of Health and Biomedicine
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The Meaning of Life and Death
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Interfacing Biomedical Knowledge and Islamic Theology
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About this book
Reviews
“The book is undoubtedly the beginning of exciting future works in this area. … Islam and Biomedicine contains invaluable contributions to the far-reaching conversation between Islam and science. By bringing together theologians, clinicians, and intellectual historians, the book draws sustained attention to the shared intellectual space of Islam and biomedicine. It provides a foundation for dedicated research at this junction for many years to come.” (Irwan Hanish, ISTAC - Journal of The International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization, Vol. 28 (1), 2023)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Islam and Biomedicine
Editors: Afifi al-Akiti, Aasim I. Padela
Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53801-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53800-2Published: 28 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53803-3Published: 29 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-53801-9Published: 27 August 2022
Series ISSN: 0376-7418
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 326
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Religion and Health, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Islam