Facing death across cultures : health and mortality in a diverse world / Stephen Henry Fox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fox, Stephen, 1960- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death--Psychological aspects.

Death.

Death--Cross-cultural studies.

Mourning customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 301 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

This book is an invaluable resource for understanding the profound connections between culture, healthcare, and mortality. In a world where healthcare professionals ꟷ doctors, nurses, clients, patients, and staff ꟷ are increasingly engaging in cross-cultural interactions, this text equips readers with essential insights to navigate diverse beliefs and expectations surrounding health and treatment, particularly in moments of stress and vulnerability. While healthcare is often grounded in Euro-American belief systems, this book broadens the reader's perspective, offering essential tools to enhance intercultural understanding during health crises and end-of-life care. It empowers both patients and practitioners to adapt and collaborate, fostering better treatment outcomes by bridging cultural divides. Gaining this multicultural lens is not only crucial for healthcare and cross-cultural psychology but also for confronting the universal experience of mortality ꟷ our own and that of our loved ones.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction to a Cultural Species

How This Book Works

Module 1 The Basic Psychological Components of Culture

Learning Outcomes

The Bird's-Eye View of Culture, Health, and Illness

Very Large Heads

Breakfast for the Family

Defining Culture?

Finding Your Culture

Values: The Unseen Force

Summing Up

Module 2 Becoming Human

Culture and Human Development

Individuals and Collectives

Thinking Culturally

Gravity and Homophily

Module 3 Acculturation: Cultures in Contact

Human Migration

Understanding Acculturation Processes

The Four Berry Modalities

Connection and Protective Factors

Symbolic Resources

Module 4 Multicultural Adaptation

Peanut Butter, Pasta, and Jazz: Transculturation

Multicultural Living and Intercultural Interactions

New Zealand and Bidirectional Changes

Hawaiʻi as a Model for Multiculturalism

Festivals, Food Trucks, and Contact Theory

Acculturation and Medical Contexts

Module 5 Health and Well-Being

Concepts of Health, Wellness, and Illness

Objective Measures of Health

Culture and Well-Being

Māori Well-Being

Healthcare as Cultural Systems

Use of T&amp

CM Healthcare around the World

Module 6 Disease and Healing

Understandings of Disease and Healing

Healers and Culture

Connecting Cultural Dimensions and Healthcare Systems

Individuality and Ethics

Health and the Arts

Module 7 Diversity and the Conventional Medical World

Diversity in Healthcare

Inequality in the Healthcare World.

Implicit Bias and Unintentional Racism

Mental Health Inequities

Global Healthcare

Training and Education

Healthcare, Minorities, and Migration

Differences in Professional Attainment

Adaptation of Providers

Medicine, Culture, and Communication

Collaboration between Systems

Confirmation Bias and Alternative Information

Violence against Healthcare Workers

Module 8 Thinking about Death

What Do We Think of Death?

Academic Study of Death

What We Think About

Cognitions about Mortality

Thinking about Life

TMT and Healthcare

A Good Death

Module 9 Managing Mortality and Difficult Passages

Managing Death

Trajectories and Scripts

Chronic Illness

Cultural Issues in Provider-Patient Communication

Communicating Bad News

Creating Death: Arts and Mortality

Module 10 Cultures Approach the End

Premonitions, Portents, and Signs

Defining the Terms of Departure

Care Expectations and Decisions

Collaborative Care

Resistance to End-of-Life Services

Cultural Supports

Module 11 Critical and End-of-Life Care

What Do We Expect at the End?

Culture of Death

Palliative Care, Hospice, and Culture

Hospice

Intentional Endings

Caring and Condolences

Organ Donation, Culture, and Ethics

Module 12 Culture, Passages, and Psychosocial Supports

Coping with the Unacceptable

Commemorative Rituals

Bereavement and Mourning: Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow

Burial Rituals and Culture

The Body

Final Disposal in China

Remembrances

Arts and Bereavement

Music and Memory

Glossary

References

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Feb 2025).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-009-11794-7

1-009-11828-5

1-009-10961-8

OCLC:

1500289479