Islam's views in medicine

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In the Name of God, the most Compassionate, the
most Merciful
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Islam's views in medicine
Dr. Seyyed Hussein Fattahi Maasoum Department of
the Thoracic surgery Ghaem Hospital, Mashhad
University of medical sciences IRAN
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Introduction

• After Islamic revolution in Iran, Islamic rules
  are attended as the main category for legistation
  at all levels. By consideration it was necessary
  that Islam's views to be considered in medical
  subjects as well, therefore I and my colleagues
  at Mashhad University of Medical Sciences decided
  to hold seminars as the title (Islam's views in
  medicine) with participation of medical and
  Islamic scholars for finding out Islam replies to
  new subjects.

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The first Seminar in the March 1990 Mashhad
University of Medical Sciences held the first
seminar or "Islam's views in medicine" in
Mashhad, with the following aims
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• To raise problems faced by medical professionals
  and health care providers for Muslim jurists in
  order to seek religious rulings based on
  normative legal-ethical sources acceptable to the
  community.
• To evaluate medical subjects in details that are
  appropriate to increase the understanding of
  Muslim jurists in the field of medicine.
• To introduce Islamic perspectives in the field of
  medical practice.
• To provide suggestions and clues for the health
  care providers and professionals.
• To explain major Islamic principles of medical
  ethics.
• To reviewing the contribution of Islamic
  civilization in the field of medicine.
• To work towards better understanding and
  interaction among Moslem physicians.

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The Seminar covered following topics to achieve
its stated goals

• Medical Ethics and its Scope in Islam
• Sources of Medical Sciences and its contributions
  in Islamic Civilization.
• Evaluation of legal-ethical rulings pertaining to
  medicine, including the subjects related to
• Anatomy, organ transplantation, legal penalties
  and compensation (diyat), legal punishments
  (hodod) and retributions (qisas) in medical
  profession
• Marriage under different diseases, family
  planning (contraception), abortion
• Medical diagnosis and laboratory tests, drugs and
  drug administration
• Dentistry and related questions to dental care.

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The second Seminar was held in March 1997. The
main topics were as the following

• to follow up the first seminars' results and
  conclusions in order to propose new subjects in
  biomedical ethics
• to seek juridical rulings for new questions in
  medical practice
• to present relevant solutions for removing
  impediments in medical practice

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review of the important Islamic rulings in
medicine
The following topics were taken up for
assessment and discussion

• Rulings related to transplantation
• harvesting organs for transplantation
• living will for organ donation
• responding to major difficulties in
  transplantation of different organs

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rulings related to legal penalties and
compensation (diyat), punishment (hudud) and
retribution (qisas) in medical profession

• the problems related to general education in the
  medical centers and universities in biomedical
  ethics.
• the relationship between therapeutic/clinically
  induced damages and Islamic penal code

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• rulings related to abortion
• rulings related to family planning and
  contraception
• rulings related to marriage under different
  medical conditions
• rulings related to drugs and prescriptions
• rulings related to anatomy
• for educational purpose
• for diagnosis
• for investigating a crime

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• making university environment compatible
• legal-ethical resolution of the problems that are
  dependent on medical expertise
• problem related to women
• problems related to marriage under special
  medical conditions
• problems related to hereditary diseases,
  hermaphrodites
• problems related to mental illnesses
• medical Ethics and History of Medicine in Iran

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third Seminar on Islamic perspectives in
medicine-March 4-6, 2003
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First category

• studying Islamic perspectives in medical affairs

• (In continuation of previous seminars)
• organ transplant
• abortion
• cloning
• psychic diseases and its spectrum of social
  disorders
• marriage under various diseases
• anatomy in its various aspects
• brain death
• medical research and educational affairs
• women's affairs (three temperaments)

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legal Affair in Medicine

• rights of patients in the medical system of the
  country
• rights of physicians, students and other medical
  workers
• rights of individuals in medical research
• rights of embryo in abortion
• rights of patients in incurable diseases

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legal penalties and Compensation and time
Requisites

• role of medicine in new view on legal penalties
  and compensations (new medical definitions,
  damages incurred, compensation and determining
  volume of damages)
• studying new subjects in legal penalties and
  compensations (expert-level views on legal
  penalties and compensations four forbidden
  months-curability of incurred damages, organ
  value, and occupational value, spiritual value of
  individuals, extra compensation losses and vice
  versa ...
• studying psychological factors in legal
  penalties and compensations
• studying issues related to medical profession in
  legal punishments and retributions

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Second Category

• medical Economy

• religious substructure of medical economy and the
  issue of medical tariffs and rates
• medical insurance and Islamic perspectives
• role of government in medical tariffs,
  pharmaceutics and laboratory, ...
• role of inflation and price rises in medical
  economy

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Third Category

• role of Muslim Physicians in the Dialogue Among
  Civilizations
• Medical ethics and views of Islam and other
  civilizations
• History and medical professionals in the history
  of Islam and Iran
• Legal-ethical resolution of the problems that are
  dependent on medical expertise

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Fourth Category

• Studying Islamic medicine and comparing and
  contrasting old and new treatment methods
• Medical ethics and its future prospect in the
  country

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Conclusion

• After Islamic Revolution in Iran (1979), we held
  three Scientific seminars on Islamic view point
  on Medicine, in which University and Huza
  scientist and scholars presented their views and
  comments in the fields of ethics, humanity and
  legal challenges in Islamic and Medicine, These
  discussions resulted in solving important
  problems such as
• Human anatomy, Organ Transplantation, Therapeutic
  Abortion, IVF (In Vitro Fertilization), Embryon
  Gifting, and we could achieve legal licensure and
  indication for them.
• Now we are planning to challenge other topics
  Clononing, Euthanasia, Diat Order (compensation)
  and bilateral rights of Doctors and Patients, in
  both Islam's views and medicine.

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• Dr. S.H. Fattahi Maasoom
• Ghaem Hospital
• Fax [phone]
• Web www.mums.ac.ir/sivm
• Email sivm_at_mums.ac.ir