Ethical issues in cross-cultural neuropsychology

Applied Neuropsychology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 91-100

  Brickman, Adam M ^a   Cabo, Raquel ^a   Manly, Jennifer J ^a,b  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Ethics; Language; Neuropsychology; Norms; Race

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL ETHICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RACE DIFFERENCE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHICS; HUMAN; MINORITY GROUP; RACE; REFERENCE VALUE; STANDARD;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; HUMANS; MINORITY GROUPS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 33750425078     PISSN: 09084282     EISSN: 15324826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15324826an1302_4     Document Type: Article

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