Caring for Patients in Cross‐Cultural Settings

Hastings Center Report 25 (1):6-14 (1995)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

A caregiver from the dominant U.S. culture and a patient from a very different culture can resolve cross‐cultural disputes about treatment, not by compromising important values, but by focusing on the patient's goals.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 90,593

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Caring for “Socially Undesirable” Patients.Nancy S. Jecker - 1996 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 5 (4):500.
The Propositional vs. Hermeneutic Models of Cross-Cultural Understanding.Xinli Wang & Ling Xu - 2009 - South African Journal of Philosophy 28 (3):312-331.
Is care a virtue for health care professionals?Howard J. Curzer - 1993 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 18 (1):51-69.
Bioregionalism and Cross-Cultural Dialogue on a Land Ethic.Richard Evanoff - 2007 - Ethics, Place and Environment 10 (2):141 – 156.

Analytics

Added to PP
2013-11-22

Downloads
63 (#231,470)

6 months
2 (#668,348)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Nancy Jecker
University of Washington

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references