Caring for Patients from Different Cultures Paperback – August 20, 2008 Author: Visit Amazon's Geri-Ann Galanti Page | Language: English | ISBN:
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"An excellent book for those interested in providing culturally responsive and effective care to our nation's increasingly diverse population"—Dr. Robert Like, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
"A must-read book for any healthcare professional. . . . It should be in every hospital library."—Caregiver Journal
About the Author
Geri-Ann Galanti is on the faculty of the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Los Angeles, the School of Nursing at California State University, Dominguez Hills, and the Doctoring Curriculum at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
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- Paperback: 312 pages
- Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press; Fourth Edition edition (August 20, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0812220315
- ISBN-13: 978-0812220315
- Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #64,978 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #9 in Books > Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Allied Health Services > Caregiving
- #36 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Sociology > Medicine
- #95 in Books > Medical Books > Nursing > Reference
Caring for Patients from Different Cultures, 4th Edition by Geri-Ann Galanti is a good book and I intend to adopt it for my Behavioral Science course at Destiny University School of Medicine as a conversation starter in the area of Cultural Relevence. My students tend to be of many faiths and many countries. I think the way the book is divided into ideas of Time Orientation, Communication, the experience of pain, differences in how men and women expect to be treated, birth issues, mental health issues, and the caveat of asking about the patient's beliefs are super important for students and providers to understand. While reading this book I asked an Indian Dentist about some of his cultural run ins and he talked a lot about how people weigh the cost benefits of dentures versus implants not by quality of life but by time expected to live and how he had experienced these issues. I talked to numerous other non-white non mainstream cultured providers and none were insulted or put off by the stories the author told but often found them humorous and used them as a stimulus to remember stories from their own backgrounds and training.
The truth is that people have many theories of illness, disease, purpose of health care, and values about the cost and kind of health care that they receive. The author's point of view is that it costs little for the provider to show respect for the family and cultural values of the patient and often harms many if the provider does not. I agree to a certain extent. However, I draw the line for myself where ignorance is so powerful that it calls for the sacrifice of a human to fulfill the agenda of power icon for a family, a religion, or a culture.
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