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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction
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Cancer across Cultures
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Cancer Interventions across Cultures
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Symptoms and Their Management across Cultures
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Dying and Death in Different Cultures
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About this book
This volume creates a multi-disciplinary dialogue about clinician-patient communication. It offers a description of the relevance of culture as a contextual effect that impacts the clinician-patient relationship. Some important topics addressed include:
-Oncology care;
-Quality of life issues;
-Supportive survivorship;
-Cultural differences in health care;
-Multidisciplinary medical approaches.
This book is for physicians, nurses, hospice and palliative care professionals and public health professionals who would like to understand the ways we can improve clinician-patient communication in culturally diverse medical settings. It is also suitable for graduate level courses in medical education, oncology, and health care.Reviews
(Gary L. Kreps, Ph.D., Chief, Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch, National Cancer Institute)
"In order to have meaningful communication between clinicians and patients, it is essential there is mutual understanding of each other's cultures. There is diversity across ethnic groups and equally important within ethnic groups. This book reinforces the importance of culture as a context for cancer care and introduces the reader to strategies for understanding how we all represent our own culture and how to communicate with each other to enhance our life experiences. The book needs to become required reading for clinicians from all disciplines."
(Ruth McCorkle, Ph.D., Director, Center for Excellence in Chronic Illness Care, Yale University School of Nursing)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cancer, Culture and Communication
Editors: Rhonda J. Moore, David Spiegel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b105731
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-47885-7Published: 31 December 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-7899-1Published: 23 April 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-48007-2Published: 08 May 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 317
Topics: Public Health, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Health Psychology, Quality of Life Research, Oncology