AVICENNA’S CANON OF MEDICINE. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND ETHICS
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Avicenna, research ethics, research methodologyAbstract
Avicenna was one of the most important Islamic physicians and philosophers. He wrote over 100 treaties of medicine, some of them containing only a few pages. His major medical work, entitled The Canon of Medicine, was finished in 1025, and included five volumes. The beginning of the Volume 2 of the Canon started with a series of general preconditions that the testing new medicines should fulfil, detailed in the chapter entitled On knowledge of the potency of drugs through experimentation. These recommendations will be analysed in this article in correlation with current principles of research ethics and methodology.
Canonul Medicinei de Avicenna. Metodologia şi etica cercetării. Avicenna a fost unul dintre cei mai importanți medici și filosofi din Islam. El a scris peste 100 de tratate de medicină, unele dintre ele conținând doar câteva pagini. Lucrarea sa majoră, intitulată Canonul Medicinii, a fost încheiată în anul 1025 și a inclus cinci volume. Cel de-al doilea volum al Canonului începe cu o serie de condiții generale pe care testarea de noi medicamente ar trebui să le îndeplinească, pe care le-a detaliat în capitolul intitulat Despre cunoașterea potenței medicamentelor prin experimentare. Aceste recomandări sunt analizate în prezentul articol prin corelare cu actualele principii de etică a cercetării și de metodologie.
Cuvinte-cheie: Avicenna, etica cercetării, metodologia cercetării
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