An Analysis of Examples of Responsibility in the Performance of Ethical Doctors in the Abbasid Era (132-656 AH)
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Medical ethics encompasses the moral duties and responsibilities that doctors have toward their patients. When entering the medical profession, doctors are required to adhere to the ethical principles that guide their practice. One of the most crucial responsibilities of a doctor is their duty to their patients. Focusing on this ethical aspect forms the foundation for patient trust and enhances the overall treatment process. During the Abbasid era, as medical knowledge expanded, Muslim scholars placed significant emphasis on the ethical responsibilities of physicians. This topic was extensively explored in numerous texts. A key aspect of a doctor's responsibility is to provide care to all patients, irrespective of their ethnicity, culture, religion, social class, type of illness, or gender. Additionally, patience, precision, offering hope, and understanding the patient's situation were regarded as crucial elements of the responsibility of Muslim physicians. This research aims to explore the role of the ethical component of responsibility from the viewpoint of prominent Muslim doctors during the Abbasid era, employing a descriptive-analytical approach and utilizing library sources. The research showed that prominent Muslim doctors of the Abbasid era paid due attention to the principle of ethics in their work, along with the profession of medicine. A substantial portion of their written works is devoted to discussing ethics in this profession. The results of the survey show that medical ethics has been very important in Muslim medical texts. Doctors highly valued responsibility as a fundamental aspect of medical ethics during the Abbasid era. Ali bin Sahl Raban Tabari, Ali bin Ishaq Rahawi, Muhammad bin Zakariya Razi, Ali bin Abbas Ahwazi, Ibn Sina, and Seyyed Ismail Jorjani were among the most trusted and prominent doctors of their time, who placed great emphasis on this moral component and provided numerous examples of it in their works. Patience and attentiveness in patient examination, skill, and expertise in disease treatment, offering hope, and following up on patients are the most important examples of responsibility that can be traced in their works.
Institutions: Shiraz University, Islamic Azad University Ardabil
Language: English
Topic: History of Medicine Studies
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4408848655