Caring for Muslim Patients

doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7280.242

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Geri-Ann Galanti, associate professor of anthropology

California State University, Los Angeles, USA

Eds Aziz Sheikh, Abdul Rashid Gatrad

Radcliffe Medical Press, £17.95, pp 155

ISBN 1 85775 372 0

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Treating illness is difficult enough without throwing in the added complication of religious and cultural differences. Yet healthcare workers in many countries are faced with the problem of treating patients whose beliefs and behaviours about health and illness may be completely different from their own. Muslim patients are but one of many groups that present such a challenge.

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