Chaleby K S
Department of Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Bull Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 1996;24(1):117-24.
There are few other specialties in psychiatry where the cultural nature and social norms of a society has more impact than the specialty of forensic psychiatry. In the Muslim and Arab worlds, Islamic principles govern the foundation of thoughts required to make laws. Those necessarily include legal issues in psychiatry. The impact of these matters on individuals as patients and the community at large can not be overestimated. Those issues will include laws of involuntary hospitalization and evaluation of mental competence toward different life functions such as commercial interaction, writing a will, marriage, divorce, and child custody. Islamic law has a definite position on criminal responsibility as well as other vital matters such as compensation of damages, including medical malpractice. This article discusses problems and peculiarities involved in the canonization of these laws in islamic communities, considering different arguments presented from one point of view versus another.
在精神病学领域，很少有其他专业像法医精神病学那样，社会的文化本质和社会规范会产生如此大的影响。在穆斯林和阿拉伯世界，伊斯兰原则构成了制定法律所需思想的基础。这些原则必然包括精神病学中的法律问题。这些问题对作为患者的个人以及整个社区的影响再怎么高估都不为过。这些问题将包括非自愿住院治疗的法律以及对不同生活功能（如商业互动、立遗嘱、结婚、离婚和子女监护）的心理能力评估。伊斯兰法律在刑事责任以及其他重要事项（如损害赔偿，包括医疗事故）方面有明确立场。本文讨论了在伊斯兰社区将这些法律法典化所涉及的问题和特点，同时考虑了从一个观点与另一个观点提出的不同论据。
