Urgent Development on Contemporary Medical Fiqh in Malaysia

Urgent Symptoms in Medical Practice

busy practitioner, as a handy book of reference. The significance of any particular symptom is here shown, without the delay of having to refer to text-books or monographs. The book is alphabetically arranged under headings such as follows (taken at random throughout the book) : abdominal pain ; abortion ; fatty stools ; hemiplegia ; leucorrhoea ; pain ; peritonitis; rheumatism; risus sardonicu...

Rural Development in Contemporary Iran 1950-2010

Contemporary Medical Superstitions

and relief in time of sickness?of their castes, their tenets, and their practices, and any one so disposed might glean from the Indian medical periodicals of the last half century materials for a very instructive essay on the subject. We hear, on the one hand, of a physician caste, learned in the traditions of a past era, holding as an heir-loom an empirical knowledge of remedies, which we shou...

Infrastructure Development in Malaysia

At independence Malaysia inherited a reasonably well-developed set of infrastructure facilities. The Government built on the initial stock of infrastructure and all categories of infrastructure have since expanded manifold and facilities have also been modernised. By and large the Malaysian Government has succeeded in meeting the growing demand for infrastructure. The Government has also made c...

Medical education in Malaysia: quality versus quantity

Medical education in Malaysia has a long history dating back to the establishment of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Malaya in 1963 [1]. Currently, there are 32 medical schools in the country (11 public and 21 private). At the end of 2014, there were 18,789 students in all years in Malaysian medical schools and another estimated 15,000 Malaysians studying medicine abroad [2]. This ...