Anthropology in the clinic: The problem of cultural competency and how to fix it

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1673-1676

  Kleinman, Arthur ^a,b   Benson, Peter ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; RELIGION; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIETY; STRESS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL MEDICINE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL MEDICINE; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC;

EID: 33750860429     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030294     Document Type: Review

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