Facing Death Across Cultures
Health and Mortality in a Diverse World

Explores cultural issues in healthcare and mortality from an interdisciplinary perspective, enhancing intercultural understanding in a diverse world.

Stephen Henry Fox (Author)

9781009100182, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 27 February 2025

312 pages
23.5 x 15.9 x 2.2 cm, 0.6 kg

This book is an invaluable resource for understanding the profound connections between culture, healthcare, and mortality. In a world where healthcare professionals – doctors, nurses, clients, patients, and staff – 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 – our own and that of our loved ones.

Introduction to a cultural species
Module 1. The basic psychological components of culture
Module 2. Becoming human
Module 3. Acculturation: cultures in contact
Module 4. Multicultural adaptation
Module 5. Health and well-being
Module 6. Disease and healing
Module 7. Diversity and the conventional medical world
Module 8. Thinking about death
Module 9. Managing mortality and difficult passages
Module 10. Cultures approach the end
Module 11. Critical and end-of-life care
Module 12. Culture, passages, and psychosocial supports.

Subject Areas: Psychology [JM]