What’s the Use of Culture? Health Disparities and the Development of ‘Culturally Competent’ Health Care

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August 3, 2018 - 9:11pm

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In this chapter, Angela Jenks discusses how medical practitioners think about "race" and "culture," the relationship between them, and the significance of this relationship for "culturally competent" healthcare.

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2010. “What’s the Use of Culture?: Health Disparities and the Development of ‘Culturally Competent’ Health Care.” Pp. 207-224 in What’s the Use of Race? Modern Governance and the Biology of Difference. David S. Jones and Ian Whitmarsh, eds. Cambridge: MIT Press.

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David S. Jones, Ian Whitmarsh and Angela Jenks, "What’s the Use of Culture? Health Disparities and the Development of ‘Culturally Competent’ Health Care", contributed by James Adams, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 3 August 2018, accessed 3 November 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/what’s-use-culture-health-disparities-and-development-‘culturally-competent’-health-care