at raisinig in every possible xaxy the standard of serxvice to the patient through the region, an(l to encourage and(i initiate researchl on the detection, prevention, treatment of disease. It would seem that a great step forward has been made in the attempt to all types of hospital working harmoniousl) together, and with goodwill and operation many of the hospital problems which have been refe...

judicial decisions (fatawa) of some of the most learned juridical authorities in the imamate (shiite) community (maraja' al-taqlid) of present time on medical issues are examined in this paper. they will provide the reader with the responses of the islamic jurisprudence to the most involved medical dilemmas. the paper mainly focuses on the rational viewpoints of the islamic law on permissi...

This paper uses a study of the opinions in a case recently decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., to explain the role of empathy in legal interpretation. I argue for two theses: (1) that empathy is essential to an interpretation of law if that interpretation is to serve the interests of justice and (2) that no interpretation of a law is sound if it ignores w...

lawyers and magistrates who are concerned with' such cases. Mr. H. N. Morison, a well-known Calcutta Barrister, has revised the Wal One useful addition in the present8 ed"! s a list of questions winch a medioil be asked in Court, which we s Wlv" '"V, to the attention of all junior medical mr.., The book is thoroughly up-to-date, and is well edited, a free use being ,?ade of various types. 1 he....

according to the most famous decrees from shia and sunni islamic jurists the blood money for a woman is half of that for a man. the islamic sentencing act which endorses this is derived from shia school of jurisprudence (article 300). the advocates of such ruling rely on some islamic texts but some of the sunni and shia jurists argue for equality between man and woman. this group of jurists, re...