ArticleHEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues2012
The promise and paradox of cultural competence.
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- Guidelines for Teaching Cross-Cultural Clinical Ethics: Critiquing Ideology and Confronting Power in the Service of a Principles-Based Pedagogy.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2016Guideline
- An ethnographic study of sociocultural determinants and health system gaps in chronic venous disease in Calabria.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- "When in Rome…": structural determinants impacting healthcare access, health outcomes, and well-being of South Asian older adults in Ontario using a multilingual qualitative approach.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- The CARE (Curiosity, Attentiveness, Respect and Responsiveness, and Embodiment) Model: Operationalizing Cultural Humility in the Conduct of Clinical Research.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Review
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Abstract
Cultural competence has become a ubiquitous and unquestioned aspect of professional formation in medicine. It has been linked to efforts to eliminate race-based health disparities and to train more compassionate and sensitive providers. In this article, I question whether the field of cultural competence lives up to its promise. I argue that it does not because it fails to grapple with the ways that race and racism work in U.S. society today. Unless we change our theoretical apparatus for dealing with diversity to one that more critically engages with the complexities of race, I suggest that unequal treatment and entrenched health disparities will remain. If the field of cultural competence incorporates the lessons of critical race scholarship, however, it would not only need to transform its theoretical foundation, it would also need to change its name.
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