The Muslim patient according to Dr Anas Chaker

The Muslim patient according to Anas Chaker:

Since its creation in 1998, the Avicenne de France medical association has sought to promote dialogue between caregivers and Muslim patients.

For this, many interventions are carried out with healthcare professionals and also with patients. Collaboration has only grown with medical and paramedical authorities. The important work can no longer be ensured by direct interventions and given the growing demand, it seemed obvious to us to practice differently or to bring something more.

It was then that the idea of a guide was born. Guide that we offer you today!
As its name suggests, it is a tool that will guide the patient and caregiver towards consistency, ease and organization of care. The benchmarks provided by this guide make it possible to establish the bases of the dialogue that are so important in this field.

This book is divided into eight chapters:

• Summary overview of Islam.
• The concept of illness in Islam
• The rites of perinatality
• Circumcision
• The hospitalized Muslim patient and religious practice
• End of life and support for the patient
• Death and its rituals
• Thoughts about…