Thirty-nine American academics, consultants and practitioners contribute 24 chapters providing an assessment framework based on the six cultural phenomena believed to shape care--communication, space, social organization, time, environmental control, and biological variations--and exploring culturally-based variations in caregivers' responses and patients' perspectives. The text includes individual chapters on 17 specific cultural groups in the U.S. Precise changes from the third (1999) edition to the fourth are not stated. For nurses and nursing students, and those in other disciplines, such as psychology, sociology, medicine, and anthropology. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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