Abstract This article analyses Avicenna's ?ayaw?n III, 1, which deals with the well-known disagreement between physicians and philosophers on origination of blood vessels (arteries veins) nerves. However, proposed analysis is not limited to this chapter its main topic. The more general purpose reconstruct psycho-medical context in exposition lies, that is, soul's oneness consequent conditions f...

s:2987:"Although the definition of abortion is pregnancy loss under 20 weeks of gestational age, in Islamic law, termination pregnancy in any gestational age is considered abortion "SEGHT JANIN". Also only "induced abortion" has legal validity, and other kinds of miscarriage (recurrent, missed,…) have no legal or ethical issue. In Iran, Islam is the base of the law. Article 4 of Iran constituti...

One of our ongoing research agenda in sustainable interaction design is the exploration of why people keep and care about some things and not others as an issue of sustainable practices to inform the design of interactive digital things. This study introduces a method we call deep narratives, which is targeted as a means to understand particular relationships between people and particular thing...

This study in the research domain of higher education sustainability addresses issues policy and implementation Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through Hong Kong public universities. The purpose was to critically analyze problématique achieving SDGs by sector. used a post-empiricist qualitative design with Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis an embedded case methodology order explore ei...

Stem cell research is very promising. The use of human embryos has been confronted with objections based on ethical and religious positions. The recent production of reprogrammed adult (induced pluripotent) cells does not - in the opinion of scientists - reduce the need to continue human embryonic stem cell research. So the debate continues. Islam always encouraged scientific research, particul...

Prenatal Diagnosis (PND) is one of the most controversial and challenging issues in the modern medicine around the world. Different countries have a various approaches toward this intricate issue. Crosslinking between religion and medicine or health is explicit in this field; so various aspects should be considered in the policy and compliment of the rules for PND. In many cases, the most contr...

Assisted reproductive technology is widely practised around the world for the treatment of virtually all forms of infertility. The application of this technology in the Islamic world had been delayed for many years, based on the misconception that Islamic teachings do not approve assisted reproduction. The paper discusses derivation of Islamic rulings and its impact on the ethics of contemporar...

Embryonic Stem Cell Research (ESCR) raises ethical issues. In the process of research, embryos may be destroyed and, to some, such an act entails the 'killing of human life'. Past studies have sought the views of scientists and the general public on the ethics of ESCR. This study, however, explores multi-faith ethical viewpoints, in particular, those of Buddhists, Hindus and Catholics in Malays...

Our previous essay to which Robert Pasnau responds in his article ‘Souls and the Beginning of Life’, took issue with several aspects of his original discussion in Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature (hereafter ‘Aquinas’) of human ensoulment and of traditional Roman Catholic teaching on the matter of abortion and the value of human life. Our primary concerns were twofold. First, to provide readers, w...

Objective One of the most controversial issues related to human embryo is to determine the moment when the embryo is considered as a human being and acquires a moral status. Although personhood and moral status are frequently touched upon in medical ethics, they are considered interdisciplinary as concepts shaping the debate in Medical Law (Fiqh) since their consequences are influential in the ...