Cultural Diversity in Health and Illness

By Rachel E Spector

The sixth edition of this well-respected book continues to promote an awareness of the dimensions and complexities involved in caring for people from diverse cultural backgrounds. Completely revised and updated, it includes the latest information on the health care delivery system in a new organizational format. It examines the differences existing within North America by probing the health care system and consumers, and examples of traditional health beliefs and practices among selected populations. An emphasis on the influences of recent social, political, and demographic changes helps to explore the issues and perceptions of health and illness today. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0838513948
• ISBN13: 9780838513941
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts and Fleschner Pub. Co
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

From a students point of view

Over all, I enjoyed reading the book. It generally flowed well and was easy to understand. It had enough depth to adequately cover the content in a semester based class (which also covered some nursing theory using other texts) without getting too bogged down in detail. Many parts were enlightening and, until I read the book, I really never considered that health care itself has a culture of it's own. I gave it four stars because I would not want this to be my only text for an entire class.

Cultural Diversity - R. Spector

This is an excellent, comprehensive overview of many cultures and serves my need in teaching a unit lecture on Cultural Diversity in Client Care to BSN students in two courses: Health Promotion and Nursing in High Acuity Settings. A text that helps me create case studies of various cultures for critical analysis by the students in Nursing in High Acuity Settings.

Great Informational Book

The chapters are long and detailed and filled with statistics and charts that physically show the information being presented. Overall it is a well put together book that remains uniform throughout.

It is always good to read the text before...

The book is based on some solid quantitative studies and it is important that we read the text first before inclining to accept any particular views invoked by reviews. I suggest that you read the text first and then make your mind based on your reading.