This chapter describes the scholarly contexts the book attends to, the larger project that this book emerged from, and outlines each chapter's principal contribution. Specifically, three observations motivate this volume: (i) contemporary religion and science discourse often assumes a conflictual relationship within which Muslim engagement is uneven; (ii) biomedicine increasingly shapes our understandings of the human being, yet both premedical and medical education rarely provide curricular space to deliberate over fundamental questions regarding humankind; and (iii) curricula that bridge Islam and the biosciences could equip current and future Muslim-allied health professionals with beneficial knowledge, skillsets, and capacities. The chapter provides insight into each of issues. It further details the multidisciplinary project involving the design, implementation, and evaluation of a seminar-based curriculum tailored to Muslim medical track students focused on addressing fundamental questions about the human being from bioscientific and Islamic perspectives. This book represents a scholarly output from that project. Lastly, the final section of the chapter provides an overview of each subsequent chapter's foci and arguments.

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Introduction: Islam, Bioscience, and the Human Being

  • Aasim I. Padela

摘要

This chapter describes the scholarly contexts the book attends to, the larger project that this book emerged from, and outlines each chapter's principal contribution. Specifically, three observations motivate this volume: (i) contemporary religion and science discourse often assumes a conflictual relationship within which Muslim engagement is uneven; (ii) biomedicine increasingly shapes our understandings of the human being, yet both premedical and medical education rarely provide curricular space to deliberate over fundamental questions regarding humankind; and (iii) curricula that bridge Islam and the biosciences could equip current and future Muslim-allied health professionals with beneficial knowledge, skillsets, and capacities. The chapter provides insight into each of issues. It further details the multidisciplinary project involving the design, implementation, and evaluation of a seminar-based curriculum tailored to Muslim medical track students focused on addressing fundamental questions about the human being from bioscientific and Islamic perspectives. This book represents a scholarly output from that project. Lastly, the final section of the chapter provides an overview of each subsequent chapter's foci and arguments.