BismiLlah…
Setelah berjaya menghadamkan buku teks Legal Medicine, Code of Professional Conduct, Good Medical Practice dan beberapa nota-nota dan booklet berkenaan Etika Perubatan yang dikeluarkan oleh Malaysian Medical Council dalam masa beberapa hari, saya rasa bertanggung jawab untuk berusaha mengkhatamkan buku ini yang dibaca separuh jalan dan ‘lompat-lompat’. Kali terakhir saya membelek-belek buku ini kira-kira lebih sebulan lalu. Itu pun hanya tertumpu kepada tajuk-tajuk tertentu.
Dan petang ini, selepas peperiksaan, saya membelek tajuk-tajuk perbincangan yang tersenarai dalam isi-kandungan dengan lebih teliti. Mata saya tertancap pada beberapa istilah yang baharu saya pelajari minggu lalu; Declaration of Helsinki, Declaration of Tokyo, Declaration of Geneva, Litigation in the medical field and medical negligence dan lain-lain. Kali terakhir saya membaca kalimah litigation di dalam buku ini (beberapa bulan lalu), saya langsung tidak memahaminya. Tapi barangkali kerana perkataan negligence, saya tertarik untuk membacanya. Dan malang sekali, susun kata yang mengikut ‘bahasa perundangan’ mengundang bosan, lalu saya menamatkan pembacaan saya. Saya memilih untuk membaca topik-topik yang bahasanya lebih ‘santai’ seperti organ transplant. Dan hari ini saya seakan-akan menyesal. Apapun, semoga pembacaan kali ini lebih bermakna dan penuh dengan rasa tanggung jawab.
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The Fiqh of Medicine
This book is based on the author’s doctoral thesis. Responses in Islamic Jurispudence to Developments on Medical Science. It examines some of the most burning issues of the last four decades of the 20th century. He examines in depth a wide range of legal and moral aspects of responsibility and medical liability within the context of the deen of Islam, with particular reference to: euthanasia, prevention and terminatio of pregnancy, reproduction and cloning, and transplantation. What are the bases in fiqh that guide medical practitioners in their daily work as they avail themselves of the developments in medical science? Dr. Ahmed Abdel Aziz has provided the medical profession and fuqaha’ with what may wll prove to be standard reference.
Ahmed Abdul Aziz Yacoub
A specialist heart surgeon in the course of which he directly encountered with development of medical science. He also embarked on the study of law as an undergraduate student at Cairo University (Khartoum Branch), and as a postgraduate student at the University of Khartoum at which he earned Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees. He then proceeded to study fr a doctoral degree at the University of London, where his research and analysis of vast material on medical science and law earned him PhD in jurispudence, in July 2000. This book derives from that PhD thesis.
