From What's Neutral to What's Meaningful: Reflections on a Study of Medical Interpreters

Journal of Clinical Ethics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 88-93

  Solomon, Mildred Z ^a  

^a EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; CAMBODIA; COMPREHENSION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FREEDOM; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL ETHICS; NOTE; PATERNALISM; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

CAMBODIA; CODES OF ETHICS; COMPREHENSION; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; FREEDOM; HUMANS; PATERNALISM; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SOCIAL VALUES; TRANSLATING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031090442     PISSN: 10467890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. L. Blackball et al., "Ethnicity and Attitudes toward Patient Autonomy," Journal of the American Medical Association 274, no. 10 (1995): 820-25;
2. B. Koenig and J. Gates-Williams, ."Understanding Cultural Differences in Caring for the Dying," Western Journal of Medicine 163, no. 3 (September 1995): 244-49;
3. C. J. Orono, B. Koenig, and A.J. David, "Cultural Aspects of Nondisclosure," Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 3 (1994): 338-46;
4. J. Carrese and L. Rhodes, "Western Bioethics on the Navajo Reservation, Benefit or Harm," Journal of the American Medical Association 274, no. 10 (1995): 826-29.
5. W. Gaylin and B. Jennings, The Perversion of Autonomy: The Proper Uses of Coercion and Constraints in a Liberal Society (New York: Free Press, 1996).
6. Decisions Near the End of Life is a national initiative to improve the care of the dying in U.S. healthcare institutions. L. Blackball, "On Cultural Diversity in End-of-Life Decisionmaking" (Invited lecture at the Decisions Near the End of Life Leadership Conference, January 1997, San Antonio, Tex.).
7. B. Freedman, "Offering Truth: One Ethi-cal Approach to the Uninformed Cancer Patient," Archives of Internal Medicine 153, no. 5 (1993): 572-76.
8. L. Blackhall shared this example as part of her 1996 presentation at a Decisions Near the End of Life leadership conference in Atlanta. Ga.