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Caring for Patients from Different Cultures: Case Studies from American Hospitals

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Description for Caring for Patients from Different Cultures: Case Studies from American Hospitals Paperback. Now in its fifth edition, Caring for Patients from Different Cultures provides healthcare workers with a frame of reference for understanding cultural difference and sound alternatives for providing the best possible care to multicultural communities. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: MBDP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 616.

Healthcare providers in the American medical system may find that patients from different cultures bring unfamiliar expectations, anxieties, and needs into the examination room. To provide optimal care for all patients, it is important to see differences from the patient's perspective and to work with patients from a range of demographics. Caring for Patients from Different Cultures has been a vital resource for nurses and physicians for more than twenty years, offering hundreds of case studies that illustrate crosscultural conflicts or misunderstandings as well as examples of culturally competent health care.
Now in its fifth edition, Caring for Patients ... Read more covers a wide range of topics, including birth, end of life, communication, traditional medicine, mental health, pain, religion, and multicultural staff challenges. This edition includes more than sixty new cases with an expanded appendix, introduces a new chapter on improving adherence, and updates the concluding chapter with examples of changes various hospitals have made to accommodate cultural differences. Grounded in concepts from the fields of cultural diversity and medical anthropology, Caring for Patients from Different Cultures provides healthcare workers with a frame of reference for understanding cultural differences and sound alternatives for providing the best possible care to multicultural communities.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812223118
SKU
V9780812223118
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99-1

About Geri-Ann Galanti
Geri-Ann Galanti is a medical anthropologist and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she teaches in the Doctoring program. She was formerly on the faculty of the School of Nursing at California State University, Dominguez Hills, and the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Los ... Read more

Reviews for Caring for Patients from Different Cultures: Case Studies from American Hospitals
"A must-read book for any healthcare professional. . . . It should be in every hospital library."
Caregiver Journal
"Large urban hospitals are chaotic places, and cultural misunderstandings do not enhance the care given in them. Galanti not only reports these cases but offers insightful ways of handling the problems they illustrate."
American Anthropologist
"An excellent ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Caring for Patients from Different Cultures: Case Studies from American Hospitals


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