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Cultural sensitivity in paediatrics
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2013In a recent Journal of Medical Ethics article, ‘Should Religious Beliefs Be Allowed to Stonewall a Secular Approach to Withdrawing and Withholding Treatment in Children?’, Joe Brierley, Jim Linthicum and Andy Petros argue for rapid intervention in cases of futile life-sustaining treatment. In their experience, when discussions of futility are initiated
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Culturally sensitive and culturally comprehensive care
British Journal of Nursing, 1994Nursing is essentially about caring for others (Leininger, 1988) and it is this emphasis on care that distinguishes nursing from other professions, most notably medicine, which are oriented towards cure. To achieve culturally sensitive care nurses need to develop a knowledge base which incorporates an awareness of their own culture, preferences and ...
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Slide culture sensitivity tests
Tubercle, 1989A new method for slide culture sensitivity tests of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is described in which smear-positive sputum spread on slides is incubated without prior decontamination in a selective lysed human blood medium. Results are available 7 days after setting up the tests and are particularly useful for guiding the treatment of smear-positive ...
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Against culturally sensitive bioethics
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 2013This article discusses the view that bioethics should become "culturally sensitive" and give more weight to various cultural traditions and their respective moral beliefs. It is argued that this view is implausible for the following three reasons: it renders the disciplinary boundaries of bioethics too flexible and inconsistent with metaphysical ...
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Cultural Sensitivity and Cultural Competence
2003The two quotations from the well-known cultural anthropologists capture a part of the experience of what it means when one chooses to study and work with people from different cultural and ethnic groups. In her quote, the esteemed anthropologist, Margaret Mead referred to the “psychological” as innate, generic characteristics of the mind while the ...
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Culture-sensitive global strategies
Proceedings of the 2009 international workshop on Intercultural collaboration, 2009This paper explores the role of culture in multinational firms' strategies and reviews academic contributions to analyzing cultural imperatives of global growth strategies with a focus on cultural friction in cross-border economic collaboration. It suggests that successful multinational companies are willing and able to turn cultural asymmetries into ...
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