The general purpose of this study is to examine and discuss the philosophical basis of the Islamic and Western secular viewpoints as presented on bioethical issues. My goal is to demonstrate the importance of considering ethical values when dealing with medical practice. This work, therefore, studies the broad outlines of Islamic legal philosophy by comparing...Read More
Building upon the World Health Organization’s recent publication WHO Strategy for Traditional Medicine (WHO 2002), this paper examines the historical position of “traditional medicines” at their intersection with the development and modernization of a biomedically based health care system in Turkey. This paper considers how the historical development of Turkey’s health care system, as a...Read More
The Divine Viscera: Medicine and Religion in the Islamic Golden Age Medicine, as we know it, was born of centuries of development. In the traditional story of Western history, Ancient Greeks began that development with figures such as Hippocrates and Galen, and, inspired by Classical knowledge, the European Renaissance carried on the process of furthering...Read More
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