Rosenhan versus Cahalan: The Importance of Proper Records and Methodology in Research

In the history of psychiatric research, few studies have made an impact as profound as David Rosenhan’s 1973 paper, “On Being Sane in Insane Places.” It challenged the validity of psychiatric diagnosis and exposed the depersonalisation of patients in mental hospitals. Decades later, journalist Susannah Cahalan revisited the same study in her 2019 book, The…

Tawhidic Epistemology and the Islamisation of Knowledge in Medical Education

Introduction The modern university, especially in the fields of science and medicine, often functions within a paradigm that disconnects knowledge from values, science from ethics, and intellect from faith. This fragmented epistemology, rooted in secular modernity, results in professionals who are technically proficient but morally and spiritually unmoored. In the Muslim world, this disjunction has…