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David S. Jones, Ian Whitmarsh and Angela Jenks, "What’s the Use of Culture? Health Disparities and the Development of ‘Culturally Competent’ Health Care", contributed by James Adams, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 3 August 2018, accessed 25 April 2024. http://www.stsinfrastructures.org/content/what’s-use-culture-health-disparities-and-development-‘culturally-competent’-health-care
Critical Commentary
In this chapter, Angela Jenks discusses how medical practitioners think about "race" and "culture," the relationship between them, and the significance of this relationship for "culturally competent" healthcare.