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Culture and the Clinical Encounter: An Intercultural Sensitizer for Health Professions

 

Author:

Gropper

Title:

Culture and the Clinical Encounter: An Intercultural Sensitizer for Health Professions

Date:

1996

Publisher:

Intercultural Press, Inc.
ISBN: 1877864439
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Comments:

In this book, the author uses "critical incidents" to educate health professionals about the importance of cultural differences in health care delivery.  Each incident presents a cross-cultural conflict or problem in a clinical context, for which the reader must choose the best of four possible explanations.  This book is written in a similar style to other clinical critical incident workbooks where the learner progresses through a decision tree and learns the outcome of each decision.  The vignettes represent challenges in cross-cultural health care for twenty-three diverse cultures.  The book is fun to read. (M. Kirkegaard)

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