Aug 30, 2008
ANTHROPOLOGY: THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF MAN AND HIS CULTURE AND HEALTH
If a patient is not of the same ethnic or social class as the doctor, there might be problems understanding each other's cultural perceptions of health, Cashdan said. She thinks if doctors want to help patients change their health-related behaviors, they need to understand where their patients are coming from, and anthropology teaches that.
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