Outline for discussion at a Workshop on Epistemology held at Dhaka on September 1, 2007 by Professor Omar Hasan Kasule MB ChB (MUK), MPH (Harvard), DrPH (Harvard) Professor of Epidemiology and Islamic Medicine University Brunei and Visiting Professor of Epidemiology University Malaya
1.0 PRE-ISLAMIC ROOTS OF MEDICINE
1.1 WEST ASIA AND NORTH AFRICA: Ancient Egypt, Babylon, Syria, Persia, Arabian peninsula
1.2 SOUTH ASIA: India
1.3 EAST ASIA: China, Japan
1.4 MEDITERRANEAN: Greeks and Romans
1.5 The European medieval period (immediate post-Roman period)
1.6 Byzantines
2.0 MEDICINE IN THE EARLY ISLAMIC PERIOD (0 – 132 H)
2.1 Pioneer nurses e.g. Rufaidah bint Sa'ad
2.2 Pioneer physicians: e.g. al Harith Bin Kaldat
3.0 MEDICINE IN WEST ASIA: THE EARLY ABASSID PERIOD (132–656H)
3.1 Pioneer physicians: Bakhtishu’u family, Masawayh family, others
3.2 Achievements in the early Abbasid era
4.0 MEDICINE IN WEST ASIA: THE LATER ABASSID ERA (659–923H)
4.1 Tatar invasion
4.2 General decline including medicine
5.0 MEDICINE IN THE MAGHREB and ANDALUSIA:
5.1 Spread of medical knowledge spread to Europe from Andalusia
5.2 Famous Andalusian physicians: Zahrawi, Ibn Rushd, Ibn Zuhr etc
6.0 MUSLIM CONTRIBUTIONS TO MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE
6.1 Basic medical sciences: Anatomy, Physiology
6.2 Medical disciplines: Infectious diseases, Blood circulation, Psychiatry, Metabolic/endocrine diseases, Allergy, Dietetics
6.3 Pharmaceuticals
6.4 Surgical disciplines: Ophthalmology, Anesthesiology, Obstetrics, General surgery, Traumatology & orthopedics, Wound treatment, Urology, Gastro-enterology, Plastic surgery, Ear, Nose, and Throat, Dentistry, Thermal and chemical cauterization, Tumors, Neuro-surgery.
6.5 Hospitals
6.6 Medical colleges
6.7 Public health
6.8 Major writings by Muslim physicians
6.9 Transfer of medical knowledge to Europe
6.10 Decline of Muslim medicine
6.11 Transfer of European medicine to the Muslim world
6.12 Renaissance of Muslim medicine.
7.0 PARADIGMS and RESEARCH METHODOLOGY IN MEDICINE
7.1 Problems in the use of the scientific method
7.2 Moral problems
7.3 Problems of objectivity
8.0 TOWARDS ISLAMIC MEDICINE, mafhum al tibb al islami
8.1 Confusion between Muslim and Islamic
8.2 Various definitions of Islamic medicine
8.3 Critique of various manifestations of medicine
8.4 Definition of Islamic medicine as paradigms & values
9.0 ISLAMIC EPISTEMOLOGICAL INTRODUCTION TO MEDICINE
9.1 Lessons from the past
9.2 Muqaddimat al tibb
9.3 The Islamic input curriculum: vision, mission, and objectives
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© Professor Omar Hasan Kasule September 2007
© Professor Omar Hasan Kasule September 2007
