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Confronting “Culture” in Medicineʼs “Culture of No Culture”
The author presents reflections from medical anthropology on the institutional culture of medicine and medical education, which sees itself as a "culture of no culture" and which systematically tends to foster static and essentialist conceptions of "culture" as applied to patients.
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Michael Vickery’s recent Society, Economics and Politics in Pre-Angkor Cambodia. The 7th-8th Centuries, the first book to deal thoroughly with a key period of Ancient Cambodia, will remain as a fundamental contribution to Khmer studies.
Eric Bourdonneau
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AbstractUsing data from the sixth wave of the World Value Survey and operationalising a definition of national culture that emphasises both specific cultural traits and the inter-dependence among them, this paper proposes a methodology to reveal the latent network structure of every national culture and to measure the cultural distance associated with ...
Luca De Benedictis +2 more
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This article examines “intercultural management” in multinational corporations in France and the effects of these racial classifications on the discourses and practices of managers within the workplace.
Anne Zhou-Thalamy
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Moving on from ‘anti-racism’? Understandings of ‘community cohesion’ held by youth workers [PDF]
‘Community Cohesion’, and the apparent lack of it, was rapidly offered as the explanation for the 2001 disturbances across northern England, and has since become a cornerstone of government approaches to race relations policy.
Thomas, Paul
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If you are not sure what 'culture' means, you are not alone. In 1952, anthropologists Kroeber and Kluckhohn identified 164 definitions of culture and there has been growth rather than rationalisation in the ensuing 70 years. In everyday English, culture is the knowledge and behaviour that characterises a particular group of people.
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Film studies and the experimental method
Kuleshov’s montage experiments have arguably been a key impetus for inauguration of film theory. Yet, although cognitivists – and even some continental film philosophers – have long appreciated the importance of neurological and psychological studies for
Mario Slugan
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ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee +9 more
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The journey of Michel Écochard serves as a great example of exported expertise in urban planning. Throughout his entire career, he intervened in various countries in the Middle and Near East, as well as in Africa, becoming a worthy representative of the ...
Marlène Ghorayeb
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ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic, inherited hemoglobinopathy that requires frequent hospitalization for disease‐related complications. Canadian data on inpatient care is limited. This study compared caregiver‐reported hospital experiences of children with SCD to those with cystic fibrosis (CF), a chronic, autosomal recessive ...
Hailey M. Zwicker +11 more
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