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Details/OrdersCulture & Clinical Care
Also available in E·Book format, DetailsCopyright: 2005 DescriptionCulture & Clinical Care is an updated, revised, and expanded edition of the best-seller, Culture & Nursing Care, winner of a Book of the Year Award from the American Journal of Nursing. The new book includes thirty-five cultural groups along with an introductory chapter on providing culturally appropriate health care. Organized alphabetically, chapters range from Afghans to (Former) Yugoslavians, and are intended to help clinicians assess cultural group patterns and to acknowledge individual variation within a cultural group. In a clear, reader-friendly format, each chapter addresses issues related to health and illness, cultural/ethnic identity, communication, spiritual/religious orientation, family relationships, food practices, activities of daily living, developmental and sexual issues, birth and death rituals, symptom management, and other topics. Nearly all of the 55 contributors are members of the cultural group they write about in their respective chapters. Useful for health care professionals in a variety of settings, the comprehensive book provides guidelines to alert and assist clinicians to potential factors they should consider to provide good care. EditorsJuliene G. Lipson, RN, PhD, FAAN, is a professor emerita in the Department of Community Health Systems and the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at UCSF. 
Dr. Lipson has taught cross-cultural nursing since 1980. Her ethnographic research has focused on the health and adjustment of immigrants and refugees to the U.S. from Arab countries, Iran, Afghanistan, Bosnia, and the Former Soviet Union. Recently she has studied disability and stigmatized chronic health conditions, focusing on multiple chemical sensitivities/environmental illness. She is active in the Council on Nursing and Anthropology and the Society for Applied Anthropology. She is a member of the Environmental Health Network's board of directors. Related link: Environmental Health Network of Northern California http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ehnindex.htm (website). Suzanne L. Dibble, DNSc, RN, is a professor at the Institute for Health & Aging, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at UCSF. 
She received her doctoral education at the University of California, San Francisco. Her research activities for more than a decade have been focused on the care of individuals with chronic illnesses. That care may either be in elucidating knowledge about the potential for a chronic illness, such as breast cancer, or aiding individuals and their families with terminal care. Symptom management has been a major focus throughout Dr. Dibble's career. In 1999, Professor Dibble founded the Lesbian Health Research Center, an international research center, specifically and uniquely concerned with health and wellness issues about lesbians, bisexual women, trans-gendered individuals, their families, and health care providers. ReviewsPublished Reviews
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