CARING FOR MUSLIM PATIENTS
Second Edition
2008158 pages Paperback
ISBN-10 1 85775 812 9
ISBN-13 9781857758122
Edited by Aziz Sheikh and Abdul Rashid Gatrad OBE, respectively Professor of Primary Care Research and Development, University of Edinburgh; Consultant Paediatrician, Manor Hospital, Walsall, Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Birmingham, and Honorary Professor, University of Kentucky, USA
Foreword by Sir Alexander Macara and HRH The Prince Of Wales, Chairman, United Kingdom Public Health Medicine Consultative Committee, and Former Chairman, British Medical Association
Description
Muslim patients customarily have particular ways of approaching health and healthcare. This book addresses common misunderstandings and bridges cultural gaps. It includes a profile of the Islamic worldview, taking an ‘insiders perspective’ and explores the concept of health and disease within this paradigm. Muslim practices and customs of direct relevance to health and healthcare are also explored and illustrated with case histories.
This new edition is now broader in scope and has been thoroughly updated following recent world events.
This book offers practical advice to enable all healthcare professionals in hospitals and in the community to provide care in a culturally appropriate manner.
‘The message of this book is that both knowledge and insight are required to combat institutional racism, whether admitted or unconscious, and to cater positively for patients with a wide diversity of beliefs and practice in a multi-cultural society.’
Sir Alexander Macara in the Foreword
'Caring for Muslim Patients is important. Taking an “insider’s perspective”, the book offers a useful insight into the British Muslim community. Those charged with organising and delivering healthcare have to try to understand the needs and concerns of all religious groups. It should help healthcare professionals to understand the vocabulary and culture of this important sub-section of our community. The importance of this work extends beyond its aim to set out a rational basis to improve the delivery of healthcare to Muslims. It also provides new and valuable insights into ways in which notions of health and disease may be re-formulated so that the NHS and its highly skilled and dedicated staff are better equipped to appreciate the very many dimensions to healing.’
HRH The Prince of Wales, in the Foreword
‘Excellent. Informative. Recommended to health professionals, policy makers and non-Muslim readers for better understanding of people of a different faith.’
THE LANCET
‘Its easy mixture of explanation and anecdote feels like having a long conversation with a delightful new neighbour.’
BRITISH JOURNAL OF GENERAL PRACTICE
‘Easy to read, accessible as a resource, practical and sensible.’
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE
‘Contains a wealth of information.’
POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL JOURNAL
‘To those of us who have faith it is very important that our beliefs are valued and respected by those we come into contact with in day-to-day life. Lack of knowledge can sometimes unintentionally cause both great inconvenience and offence. Caring for Muslim Patients is a very useful guide.’
FORMER PRIME MINISTER, TONY BLAIR
‘A landmark publication providing a springboard from which we can offer more humane, sensitive and effective health care to an important section of our community.’
LORD HUNT, MINISTER FOR HEALTH
‘This book will meet a great need.’
LORD WEATHERILL, FORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
‘Contains key messages of practical value to GPs and primary care teams.’
GENERAL PRACTITIONER
‘Important. Useful. It should help healthcare professionals to understand the vocabulary and culture of this important sub-section of our community and, in so doing, provide clinicians with the tools needed to appreciate some of the concerns of the community.’
HRH THE PRINCE OF WALES
Review Quotes ‘In this age of high emotions and misunderstandings, this extraordinarily important book explains the religion and culture of Islam in terms that every person can easily understand. This book should be required reading for those who care for Muslim patients as well as those living among Muslim neighbors. This is a masterful book that should be required reading for every medical, nursing, and ancillary health professional student. 5 Stars!’
DOODY ENTERPRISES
‘Clearly laid out and readable. For those with a basic grasp of Islam, this book will provide valuable revision. For those with no previous knowledge, it is a helpful introduction. The book emphasises the Muslim perception of the human being as a whole person, rather than a divided body, mind and spirit, and thus draws attention to the value of taking the spiritual dimension seriously as something that promotes health. My own experience of most Muslim clients confirms the importance of their faith in all areas of their lives, and therefore how essential it is for helping professionals to seek to understand the Islamic world view. Caring for Muslim Patients provides accessible information to heighten sensitivity.’ HCPJ
'This well-thought-out book offers valuable content of health care practitioners and academic medical collections. Recommended.' CHOICE
'Caring for Muslim Patients should be required reading for health professionals who are serious about making a difference to their patients' health and quality of life.' PRIMARY CARE NURSING
'If we can try to learn a little more about the faith that guides the behaviour of those in our care, this must be a responsible action as a health professional.
I would therefore recommend this book.'
THE PRACTISING MIDWIFE
 Muslims in the West: demographic and socio-economic position The Muslim grand narrative Health and disease: an Islamic framework Principles of Islamic bioethics The family: predicament and promise Birth customs: meaning and significance Managing the fasting patient: sacred ritual, modern challenges Hajj: journey of a lifetime Death and bereavement: an exploration and a meditation Conclusions: breaking barriers, building bridges
Abdul Aziz Ahmed Saddaf Alam Muhammad Anwar Sangeeta Dhami Hamza Yusuf Hanson Sir Alexander Macara Ahmed Sadiq Tim J Winter
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