Facing Death Across Cultures

"In today's healthcare landscape, diverse cultures converge among providers, patients, and staff, shaping beliefs and expectations. The prevailing Euro-American healthcare model offers amazing advanced treatments, but intercultural encounters frequently bring confusion and conflict when worldviews and cultural origins differ; awareness and understanding can reduce unconscious biases, inequities, and discrimination. Drawing from cultural psychology, sociology, anthropology, and direct experience, Fox explores these dynamics, offering insights from stakeholders across cultures. This book illuminates intersections of culture, healthcare, and mortality, recognizing cultural diversity as a source of wisdom and vitality. It provides concepts and tools to navigate cross-cultural encounters in healthcare, facilitating better treatment outcomes. Embracing multicultural perspectives can enrich experiences in facing serious illnesses and end-of-life care, benefiting practitioners, patients, and families alike. This book is for healthcare professionals, educators, and students, as well as anyone seeking to understand and navigate cultural complexities in healthcare with compassion and insight"-- Provided by publisher.