Abstract
This book consists of sixteen short chapters addressing the nature and scope of physicians? liability in several medical procedures. Chapter titles are: medical liability among the ancients; physician?s ethical responsibility; patient?s consent; general overview of medical liability; physician?s liability in Prophetic traditions and Islamic jurisprudence; requisites of medical liability; pillars of medical liability; medical error; establishment of physician?s liability and its implications in sharia; types of medical liability; compensation for physician?s error; physician?s liability for contagious diseases; physician?s liability for cosmetic surgery; artificial insemination and physician?s liability; physician?s liability for organ transplantation; liability for conducting medical and pharmaceutical research.
