User:PuRan17/Medicine in the medieval Islamic world

Drugs
To evaluate the safety of the herbal drugs there are certain clinical trials and experimentation that are done so to ensure the the safety of the drugs on humans. Certain methods such as in vivo and in vitro methods are some of the first steps in evaluating a drug. These processes uses animal models and they have been developed in a way that will come to mimic human conditions to see what the effects of the herbal drugs really are. There can definetly be certain limitations that can arise from the use of animal models but this process is an important was to ensure the safety of the herbal drugs that is being tested.

Medical Ethics
The Islamic medical ethics can be discovered as two types of topics, the Adab literature and the classic Islamic legal tradition. With Adab literature, its main course of action is to mainly promote the universal virtues and morals that exists. Its main goal is to promote the importance of ethical behaviors, good manners, and social etiquette that can then intern be applied to all human beings that exists no matter what their religious background is or even what cultural background that they derived from. Due to this Adab literature is very universal and appeals to a wide variety of religion and cultural background out there. On the other hand, with the Islamic legal traditions, it can be traced back and grounded in the Islamic laws and the jurisprudence. The Islamic legal tradition is often brought in and used when there are certain ethical dilemmas that needs to be dealt with. These can be things such as biomedical issues and the Islamic legal traditions is closely connected to the Islamic medical ethics and laws.

Medical Education and Hospitals
In 639 A.D., the Muslims had conquered and taken control of the Persian City of Jundi-Shapur. Even though the city was taken over, most of the hospitals and universities that existed were left intact to be used later on. The Islamic medical schools were later on built to the patterns that previously existed and medical education was taken very seriously regarding the cirriculum and the clinical training that has existed.

The Islamic medicine had developed the "Bimaristans" or further more known as the hospitals, they were very well developed with how efficient they were along with how advance their systems were. These hospitals served the public with no charge and no discrimination also, they were advanced with how they operated from separating males and females along with having different wards fro different types of diseases.

Modern Islamic Medicine
The current medical education system tends to ignore and neglect certain periods of medicine where one of which is the history of Islamic medicine. The international institute of Islamic medicine has been created to spread the history and awareness of Islamic medicine across North America. Reviving the old traditions of Islamic medicine could be very beneficial in the everyday practice.

Medicine During the Islamic Period
The Islamic medical tradition arise during the medieval period (c. 650–1500) and had a major impact on humans along with setting the foundation for future medicine including the current modern Western Medicine. During this period, the Islamic medical tradtion had cross-pollination with other cultures where they had mixed traditons and methods. The Islamic medical tradition had a lasting impact in that it contributed to the European medicine along with continuing to influence medical practices today.