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US and Australasian scholars of nursing explore caring and culture through a variety of phenomenological, hermeneutic, and ethnographic approaches. Their topics include caring and self-harm, a personal dialogue, nursing people from other cultures, and the context in which student nurses learn the culture of caring. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Many Voices explores the relationships and the tensions at the intersection of caring in the context of health, and culture. As the social voices of diverse groups are increasingly acknowledged in healthcare, ideological frictions between goals of assimilation and of diversity and multiculturalism remain unsolved. Caring (or its opposite, neglect) mediates in health-related encounters in ways that are often described more rhetorically than realistically. Here are the issues as they are experienced.
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