Conference on History of Islamic Medicine

Calicut: The International Institute of Islamic Medicine (IIIM), Islamic Medical Association of North America and University of Calicut, organized a three day International conference on ‘History of Islamic Medicine” at the University of Calicut from 2nd Jan to 4th Jan 2015. E. T Mohammed Basheer, Member of Parliament, inaugurated the conference. ” Ethics cannot be injected through any medicine, rather it should be self-generated and the Quran is the main source of generating ethics in our profession,” he stated in his inaugural address. The main objective of the conference was to exhibit the glorious period of Muslim civilizations when Muslim contribution to sciences was at its glorious peak, in the middle ages.
(Reported by Azharuddin Pilakodan)