Article
French
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DOI: <
10.3406/sosan.2008.1890>
Abstract
Ramadan fasting : dilemma for diabetic patients and physicians in Morocco Ramadan fasting is a dilemma for Islamic diabetics. This practice is not only a religious obligation but also a socio-cultural value. Our inquiries results show that a majority of patients observe Ramadan’s fast ritual even it’s negative risks on their health. Physicians counselling and religious authorization to stop fasting can’t modify this situation. Some patients, who are fasting during Ramadan, feel alone, humiliated and have social and religious culpability. This ritual is also a dilemma for health care providers because, firstly doubt about biomedical consequences of Ramadan fasting connected to variability of diabetes and diabetics ; secondly repeated failures to modify patients behaviour’s about fasting. State of fasting brings more complexity to interaction between health care providers and patients and to the management of this chronic disease. This study try to understand different logics behind attitudes of patients and physicians in Ramadan and the multiple factors influencing them. It uses a new lecture of Freidson’s theory of opposition between profane and professional systems.