Traditional Medicine as ‘Medical Neglect’: Dilemmas in the Case Management of a Samoan Teenager with Diabetes

Krantzler, Nora J.

doi:10.1007/978-94-009-3393-4_16

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1995

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“…The culturally specific nature of explanatory models becomes especially apparent when a translation between cultures is attempted. Consider the case of a Samoan family, recent immigrants to Hawaii, who had difficulty making sense of western physicians' diagnosis of diabetes mellitus in their daughter (Krantzler 1987). It was explained that the patient had a problem with "sugar."…”

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confidence: 99%