Rhetoric v. reality: The effect of 'multiculturalism' on doctors' responses to battered South Asian women in the United States and Britain

Patterns of Prejudice

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 416-430

  Puri, Sunita ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Berkeley Human Rights Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Battered women; Domestic violence; Health care; Multiculturalism; Social medicine; South Asian health; South Asian immigrant women

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644984395     PISSN: 0031322X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00313220500347873     Document Type: Article

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