People in PainJossey-Bass, 1969 - 274 pagine Zborowski did his research in a large metropolitan veterans hospital whose patient population comprised Irish, Italian, Jewish, and "old" American ethnic groups. He worked daily in the hospital, interviewing, observing, questioning, recording. He discovered that individuals of different cultural backgrounds do respond differently to pain, and that persons of similar cultural background respond similarly. It is often against hospital codes and practices to attribute a patient's "incorrect" or uncooperative behavior to his membership in a specific ethnic or national group. Although this book reveals that Jews and Italians consistently show emotional responses to pain, hospitals continue to identify an overemotional patient as a "mental case" rather than as a Jew or Italian. (In many cases, hosptial staff handle "exaggerated" behavior by transferring the patient to a psychiatric ward.) The greater understanding of human behavior that this book contributes can help to prevent such inappropriate and often unjust treatment of patients. |
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Introduction | 1 |
The Cultural Dimensions of Pain | 14 |
The Warning Signal | 49 |
Copyright | |
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