Healing by Heart: Clinical and Ethical Case Stories of Hmong Families and Western Providers Pdf

Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2003-10-01
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0826514316
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Healing by Heart pdf
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Healing by Heart is a book of stories--stories of people's search for culturally responsive health care from U.S. providers. It offers resources to providers and institutions committed to delivering culturally responsive health care, paying special attention to building successful relationships with traditional Hmong patients and families. It makes available extensive information about the health-related beliefs, practices, and values of the Hmong people, including photographs of traditional healing methods.

Ranging in age from young infants to older adults, the patients in the stories present a wide range of health problems. The clinicians are from family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, emergency medicine, surgery, obstetrics-gynecology, psychiatry/psychology, and hospice.

Each of the fourteen case stories is accompanied by discussion questions as well as two or three commentaries. The commentaries--written by patients, family members, shaman, Western clinician Download Healing by Heart for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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