"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
clinicians (including Hmong physicians, nurses, and social
workers), medical anthropologists, health care ethicists, social
workers, psychologists, and clergy--are rich in personal
reflections on cross-cultural health care experiences. Readers are
rewarded with a combination of perspectives, including those of
Hmong authors who have not previously published in English and
scholars with years of professional experience working with the
Hmong in Laos, Thailand, and the United States.
The editors offer a model for delivering culturally responsive
health care with special attention to matters of cross-cultural
health care ethics. The model identifies questions health care
providers can focus on as they seek to understand the
health-related moral commitments and practices prevalent in the
cultural groups they serve, ethical questions that arise frequently
and with great poignancy in cross-cultural health care
relationships, and points to consider when a patient's treatment
wish challenges the provider's professional integrity.
By sharing stories of suffering, confusion, and success, "Healing
by Heart" couples an accessible method of learning about others
with concrete recommendations about how to enhance cross-cultural
health care relationships.
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