Medical act regulations : a study in Islamic jurisprudence and man-made laws

Abstract EN

Man being the end of all social order, his protection in his bodily integrity has been in the center of laws' interest.

Consequently, with the development of medicine, the notion of the legitimacy of the medical act, considered as a type of violation of the human body and the right to life, has been debated by the juridical literature.

Through this study, an essential conclusion has emerged: The medical act remains one of the essential tasks that are incumbent on the physician, and for what, number of regulations and conditions were put in place by laws, and supported by the jurisprudence and the judicial power, so that a medical act is legitimate.

And since the fundamental aim of the medical profession is to achieve healing, medical science seeks to find the appropriate means of treating and combating disease, the physician must have no other concern than to ensure a legitimate interest.