Amin Widigdo, Mohammad Syifa2019-09-252019-09-252014-05-2820139782940428427978-2-940428-42-7http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/207600Rather than develop the tradition of medical ethics from the Galenic-Islamic tradition, contemporary scholars of Islam discuss Islamic medical ethics largely under the umbrella of Islamic law. This may lead to a narrow perception of Islamic medical ethics. One may perceive that Islamic medical ethics results from sharia-based reasoning tout court. This is not the real description of medical ethics in Islam, especially if Islam is interpreted as a cultural force, not confined to religion (Manfred Ullmann). In the case of medical ethics, we may also attribute the term “Islamic” to the philosophical and medical traditions that were developed in the medieval Islamic world, in addition to associating “Islamic” with Islamic legal prescriptions. In order to have a fuller understanding of medical ethics, I provide an account of the principles, the reasoning, and the norms of both sharia-based medical ethics (i.e. sharia ethics) and Galeno-Islamic medical ethics (i.e. virtue ethics). Islamic medical ethics will appropriately include ethical concepts developed by philosophers and physicians in the Islamic world, in addition to those ethics derived from Islamic legal principles and stipulations.Pages: 18engCreative Commons Copyright (CC 2.5)Islamic EthicsShariaethicsGlobal ethicsPolitical ethicsEconomic ethicsCultural ethicsReligious ethicsMethods of ethicsBioethicsCommunity ethicsEnvironmental ethicsBook chapter