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Resource Bibliography in Cross Cultural Nursing: Theory

Melinda Mich and Noel Chrisman
University of Washington
Autumn, 1995

Theory: Health Science Concepts Cross Culturally

• Barbee, E. L. (1993). Racism in U.S. nursing. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 7(4), 346-362. Title says it all.
• Benarde, M., & Mayerson, E. (1978). Patient-physician negotiation. Journal of the American Medical Association, 239(14), 1413-1415.
• Bergsma, J., & Duff, R. (1980). A model for examining values and decision-making in the patient-doctor relationship. Pharos of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, 43(3), 7-12.
• Brink, P. J. (1984). Value orientations as an assessment tool in cultural diversity. Nursing Research, 33(4), 198-203.
• Charonko, C. V. (1992). Cultural influences in "noncompliant" behavior and decision making. Holistic Nursing Practice, 6(3), 73-78.
• Chrisman, N. J. (1977). The health seeking process: An approach to the natural history of illness. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 1(4 ), 351-377.
• Chrisman, N. (1985). Alcoholism: Illness or disease? In L.A. Bennett & G.M. Ames (Ed.), The American Experience with Alcohol: Contrasting Cultural Perspectives. New York: Plenum Press.
• Clark, J., & Morton, J. (1977). Behavioral assessment: An appraisal of beliefs and behaviors relating to treatment. Dental Clinics of North America, 21(3), 515-530.
• Cool, L. E. (1986). Ethnicity: Its significance and measurement. In C.L Fry, J. Keith & Contributors, New Methods for Old-Age Research: Strategies for Studying Diversity (pp. 263-280). South Hadley, Massachusetts: Bergin & Garvey.
• Cooper, R., & David, R. (1986). The biological concept of race and its application public health and epidemiology. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 11(1), 97-116.
• Dobson, S. M. (1989). Conceptualizing for transcultural health visiting: The concept of transcultural reciprocity. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 14, 97-102.
• Dowd, T., & Eckermann, A.-K. (1992). Cultural danger or cultural safety: Remote area health services. The Australian Nurses Journal, 21(6), 11-12.
• Dunn, S. K. (1986). Health seeking behaviors and barriers to care among transcultural families. Manuscript
• Fabrega, H. J. (1979). The ethnography of illness. Social Science and Medicine, 13A(5 ), 565-576.
• Germain, C. P. (1992). Cultural care: A bridge between sickness, illness, and disease. Holistic Nursing Practice, 6(3), 1-9.
• Hartog, J., & Hartog, E. A. (1983). Cultural aspects of health and illness behavior in hospitals. Western Journal of Medicine, 139(6), 910-916.
• Helman, C. G. (1981). Disease versus illness in general practice. Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 31(230), 548-552.
• Kagawa-Singer, M. (1993). Redefining health: Living with cancer. Social Science and Medicine, 37(3), 295-304.
• Kleinman, A. (1983). The cultural meanings and social uses of illness. The Journal of Family Practice, 16(3), 539-545.
• Mauksch, L., & Roesler, T. (1990). Expanding the context of the patient's explanatory model using circular questioning. Family Systems Medicine, 8(1), 3-13.
• McKinlay, J. B. (1972). The sick role--Illness and pregnancy. Social Science and Medicine, 6(5 ), 561-572.
• O'Brien, M. (1981). Transcultural nursing research: Alien in an alien land. Image, 13(2), 37-39.
• Outlaw, F. H. (1994). A reformulation of the meaning of culture and ethnicity for nurses delivering care. MEDSURG Nursing, 3(2), 108-111.
• Parry, K. (1984). Concepts from medical anthropology for clinicians. Physical Therapy, 64(6), 929-933.
• Smith, C. A. (1994). The lived experience of care within the context of cultural diversity. Journal of Holistic Nursing, 12(3), 282-290.
• Steeves, R. H., Kahn, D. L., & Benoliel, J. Q. (1990). Nurses' interpretation of the suffering of their patients. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 12(6), 715-731.
• Tripp-Reimer, T., & Fox, S. S. (19xx). Beyond the concept of culture: Or how knowing the cultural formula does not predict clinical success. Copy