Cultural Dimensions of Death and Dying

Authors

Barbara Koenig

Files

Publication Date

10-5-2009

Keywords

ethics, death, cultural interpretation, stereotyping

Disciplines

Bioethics and Medical Ethics | Palliative Care

Abstract

Numerous articles offer council to health care professionals who care for patients from unfamiliar cultural backgrounds.What is best strategy for thinking about culture and engaging in cultural interpretation? How can we avoid stereotyping? Patients near the end of life present profound challenges to our most basic assumptions about appropriate care. Careful, critical reflection, including turning a cultural lens on biomedicine itself is paramount.

Specialty/Research Institute

Biomedical Ethics

Specialty/Research Institute

Palliative Care

Comments

Curtis R. Holzgang, M.D., MACP Visiting Scholar