On the 21st and 22nd of May 2009, an International Scientific Conference "The Faces of Asian Statehood. Civilization, Cultural, Political, Legal and Economic Aspects" was held in Toruń, Poland. The event took place thanks to the joint initiative of the Asia and Pacific Society and its Chairman Adam Marszałek – the main organizing institution, Institute of Political Science & Institute of International Relations – University of Nicolaus Copernicus, Toruń, Poland, as well as local (President of Toruń) and regional (Marshal of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Region) authorities. Joanna Marszałek-Kawa was the Scientific Manager of the sessions. Members of the Organizing Committee include also Lucyna Osińska, Robert Gawłowski, Joanna Modrzyńska and Mariusz Popławski.
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Traditionally, the average code of conduct within Western health care starts from the autonomy of the patient. In addition, medicine today is ‘evidence based’ and the patient is an ‘informed consent’. Yet, the individual autonomy of the patient in health care is not simply enhancing today. Quite a few fundamental changes have and are currently at work within health care, which I will summarize here with the paradigm of predictive medicine. One of the characteristics of this paradigm is the increase of medical consults which are not autonomously chosen by an individual. For reasons of public health and diminishing of health risks or for reasons of prevention, on one hand we are dealing with ethical codes centered around the autonomy of patients and the face-to-face relations with health care workers, on the other, we are dealing with a society that takes an increasingly greater medical initiatives. Therefore, the question arises if predictive medicine confronts us with the limits of an ethical code as we know it today. Is there not an urgent need for a political code of conduct in health care?
The purpose of this article is to briefly describe the activities of Muslim organizations in the United States in the past and today. Thus, it showed both the positive aspects of their functioning as well as the problems they had to deal with in particular decades. As noted in the text, despite sometimes difficult periods in the functioning of these organizations, many of them operate to this day. Many Muslim organizations in the US have experienced minor or major splits within their religious community. In this context, the profiles of such important figures for American Muslims as: Malcolm X, Elijah, or Fard, who were the initiators of various splits in their religious circles, were also included. But despite breaking up the unity of their groups, they became, as it later turned out, religious leaders gifted with authority and respect for a number of reasons.
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Celem niniejszego artykułu jest krótka charakterystyka działalności muzułmańskich organizacji w Stanach Zjednoczonych w przeszłości i współcześnie. Ukazano tym samym zarówno pozytywne aspekty ich funkcjonowania, a także problemy, z jakimi przyszło im się mierzyć w poszczególnych dekadach. Jak zauważono w tekście, mimo momentami trudnych okresów w funkcjonowaniu owych organizacji, wiele z nich działa po dziś dzień. Wiele organizacji muzułmańskich w USA dotknęły mniejsze lub większe rozłamy w obrębie swojej społeczności religijnej. W tym kontekście ujęto także sylwetki ważnych dla amerykańskich muzułmanów postaci, jak: Malcolm X, Elijah czy Fard, którzy byli inicjatorami różnych rozłamów w swoich środowiskach religijnych. Lecz mimo rozbijania jedności w swoich grupach stali się oni, jak się później okazało, przywódcami religijnymi, których z wielu powodów obdarzono autorytetem i szacunkiem.
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