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Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture: An Exploration of the Borderland Between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry

Joseph Westermeyer
- 01 Oct 1981 - 
- Vol. 169, Iss: 10, pp 666
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This article is published in Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.The article was published on 1981-10-01. It has received 509 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Context (language use).

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Cultural Humility Versus Cultural Competence: A Critical Distinction in Defining Physician Training Outcomes in Multicultural Education

TL;DR: Cultural humility is proposed as a more suitable goal in multicultural medical education that incorporates a lifelong commitment to self-evaluation and self-critique and to developing mutually beneficial and nonpaternalistic clinical and advocacy partnerships with communities on behalf of individuals and defined populations.
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Culturally adapted psychotherapy and the legitimacy of myth: a direct-comparison meta-analysis.

TL;DR: A multilevel-model, direct-comparison meta-analysis of published and unpublished studies confirms that culturally adapted psychotherapy is more effective than unadapted, bona fide psychotherapy by d = 0.32 for primary measures of psychological functioning.
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When nurses double as interpreters: a study of Spanish-speaking patients in a US primary care setting.

TL;DR: It is concluded that errors occur frequently in interpretations provided by untrained nurse-interpreters during cross-language encounters, so complaints of many non-English-speaking patients may be misunderstood by their physicians.
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Epistemic injustice in healthcare: a philosophial analysis

TL;DR: It is suggested that a phenomenological toolkit may be part of an effort to ameliorate epistemic injustice and that many aspects of the experience of illness are difficult to understand and communicate and this often owes to gaps in collective hermeneutical resources.
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Somali immigrant women and the American health care system: discordant beliefs, divergent expectations, and silent worries.

TL;DR: It was found that Somali women's health beliefs related closely to situational factors and contrasted sharply with the biological model that drives Western medicine, resulting in divergent expectations regarding treatment and healthcare interactions.
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Cultural Humility Versus Cultural Competence: A Critical Distinction in Defining Physician Training Outcomes in Multicultural Education

TL;DR: Cultural humility is proposed as a more suitable goal in multicultural medical education that incorporates a lifelong commitment to self-evaluation and self-critique and to developing mutually beneficial and nonpaternalistic clinical and advocacy partnerships with communities on behalf of individuals and defined populations.
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Culturally adapted psychotherapy and the legitimacy of myth: a direct-comparison meta-analysis.

TL;DR: A multilevel-model, direct-comparison meta-analysis of published and unpublished studies confirms that culturally adapted psychotherapy is more effective than unadapted, bona fide psychotherapy by d = 0.32 for primary measures of psychological functioning.
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When nurses double as interpreters: a study of Spanish-speaking patients in a US primary care setting.

TL;DR: It is concluded that errors occur frequently in interpretations provided by untrained nurse-interpreters during cross-language encounters, so complaints of many non-English-speaking patients may be misunderstood by their physicians.
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Epistemic injustice in healthcare: a philosophial analysis

TL;DR: It is suggested that a phenomenological toolkit may be part of an effort to ameliorate epistemic injustice and that many aspects of the experience of illness are difficult to understand and communicate and this often owes to gaps in collective hermeneutical resources.
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The burden of disease and the changing task of medicine

TL;DR: To understand the transformations of disease over the past 200 years, one must explore its social nature.