Eliciting Quality Patient Responses in Cross-Cultural Care

The cultural worlds created by humans are not controlled by universal laws of science; each culture operates according to its own internal dynamic. Even members of a given culture acquire most of what they know in the process of growing up. Relating to other people isn’t learned the way, for example, disease theory is learned. So culture can’t be distilled into learned facts and doctors...
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Faithful Infidel

Why did I pick up a book by Ayaan Hirsi Ali? I had never even heard of her. In retrospect, I probably should have heard of her. Perusing the shelves of the Tattered Cover bookstore last week, the Ali book Nomad caught my attention. The very lovely black woman’s face gracing the paperback cover seemed to speak her book’s subtitle: From Islam to America. In my free time, I like nothing...
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