MEDICAL EMERGENCY TEAM AS AN ACCIDENTAL WITNESS TO THE RITUAL OF EXORCISM PERFORMED ON A PREGNANT MUSLIM WOMAN
Keywords:
exorcism, emergency medical team, pregnancy, Islamic
Abstract
We present a religious ritual of exorcism performed by a Muslim priest of a pregnant woman of the Islamic faith in the third month of pregnancy with body twitches and abdominal pain, in which emergency medical services (EMS) team was an accidental witness.
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4. Chavez, W.S. Modern Practice, Archaic Ritual: Catholic Exorcism in America. Religions 2021, 12(10): 811. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12100811.
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7. Aziato L, Omenyo CN. Initiation of traditional birth attendants and their traditional and spiritual practices during pregnancy and childbirth in Ghana. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 2018;18(1):64. doi: 10.1186/s12884-018-1691-7. PMID: 29514607.
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10. Kopeyko GI, Borisova OA, Gedevani EV. Osobennosti psikhopatologii i fenomenologii breda oderzhimosti religioznogo soderzhaniia pri shizofrenii [Psychopathology and phenomenology of religious delusion of possession in schizophrenia]. Zh Nevrol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova 2018;118(4):30-35. Russian. doi: 10.17116/jnevro20181184130-35. PMID: 29863689.
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12. Alean Al-Krenawi i John Graham. Socijalni rad i Kuranski iscjelitelji mentalnog zdravlja. Međunarodni socijalni rad 1999; 42 (1): 53–65. doi : 10.1177/002087289904200106
13. Goodman DF. The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel. Oregon: Wipf and Stock Publishers in Eugene, 2005.
14. Pietkiewicz IJ, Lecoq-Bamboche M. Exorcism Leads to Reenactment of Trauma in a Mauritian Woman. J Child Sex Abus 2017;26(8):970-992. doi: 10.1080/10538712.2017.1372837. PMID: 28952898.
15. Hu Y, Jiao M, Li F. Effectiveness of spiritual care training to enhance spiritual health and spiritual care competency among oncology nurses. BMC Palliat Care 2019;18(1):104. doi: 10.1186/s12904-019-0489-3. PMID: 31771570.
16. Herlianita R, Yen M, Chen CH, Fetzer SJ, Lin EC. Perception of Spirituality and Spiritual Care among Muslim Nurses in Indonesia. J Relig Health 2018;57(2):762-773. doi: 10.1007/s10943-017-0437-6. PMID: 28647910.
17. Majerović M, Augustin G. Acute abdomen in pregnancy and postpartum period. Acta Chir Croat 2012;9:13-17.
18. Act on churches and religious communities ("Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia", no. 36/06).
19. The Law on Patients’ Rights (“Official Gazette of RS”, No. 45/2013 and 25/2019).
20. Code of Medical Ethics of the Medical Chamber of Serbia (“Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia”, No. 104/2016).
Published
2023/12/20
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