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• The Role of Culture in the Medical Encounter

  Short piece of health-related scholarship in cultural studies. Describes three instances in which medical professionals' lack of knowledge about their patients' cultural background had a negative impact on medical judgment and personal treatment. Published by Katahdin Area Health Education Center, University of Maine at Orono. Reprinted from "The Maine MOSAIC," Spring, 1989.

  Tags Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Health and Wellness, Maine, Native Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Science and Medicine, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Vietnamese Americans

• The Role of Culture in the Medical Encounter

  Short piece of health-related scholarship in cultural studies. Describes three instances in which medical professionals' lack of knowledge about their patients' cultural background had a negative impact on medical judgment and personal treatment. Published by Katahdin Area Health Education Center, University of Maine at Orono. Reprinted from "The Maine MOSAIC," Spring, 1989.

  Tags Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Health and Wellness, Maine, Native Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Science and Medicine, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Vietnamese Americans