Qureshi, B.

Transcultural medicine: dealing with patients from different cultures - 2nd ed. - London Kluwer Academic Publishers 1994 - x, 243p.

Explains how medicine as a science should be practiced in respect to the patient culture for doctors to make accurate diagnosis through understanding the patterns of illness in various ethnic groups and isolated diseases which may not be specific to a particular ethnic group. Describes some multicultural customs about child birth, marriage, death and bereavement.

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Culture|Psychiatric Nursing|Medicine

WA 300 Q74 1994