Cancer across Cultures.- Culture and Oncology.- Quality of Life in Culturally Diverse Cancer Patients.- Cancer and Aging.- Children with Cancer.- Cancer Risk Assessment.- Cancer Interventions across Cultures.- Cancer Prevention.- Cross-Cultural Aspects of Cancer Care.- Symptoms and Their Management across Cultures.- The Cultural Experience of Cancer Pain.- Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Patients with Cancer.- Dying and Death in Different Cultures.- Bereavement across Cultures.- The Unmet Need.
"This important scholarly volume provides a powerful description of
the relevance of culture as a critical context effect that
dramatically influences provider-consumer communication and health
outcomes in the Western context of cancer care. Culture is
illustrated in the book's chapters as a pervasive variable,
encompassing linguistic, national, ethnic, age, gender,
socio-economic, and even professional beliefs, framing health care
providers' and consumers' expectations and responses to cancer
care. To be effective, communication in cancer care must be
responsive to the cultural beliefs, values, and attitudes that
participants bring to the health care setting. Culturally sensitive
communication in cancer care can take advantage of distinct context
effects for therapeutic benefit. This book provides the reader with
a vivid sense of the powerful cultural issues that face
provider-consumer communication in oncology, and also suggests
strategies for adapting cancer communication to meet unique
cultural demands."
(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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