Websites with Information on Specific Cultures

Websites with Information on Specific Cultures:

http://www.rice.edu/projects/topics/readers/culture-forum.htm-- Topics Online Magazine in which people from various cultures write about their experiences and different cultures

http://s00.classes.colgate.edu/soan355/ Colgate University Bassett-St Elizabeth’s Family Residency Program, providing culturally sensitive healthcare. Has guides for working with different cultures

http://www.ewjm.com/cgi/content/full/172/5/335 Online journal articles about cultural sensitivity

http://cwr.utoronto.ca/cultural/english/ University of Toronto site which includes summaries of many different countries, cultures, etc

http://www.ggalanti.com/ This site promotes a book and workshops on cultural competenc, but also has links to good articles and information about various cultures

http://www.edupass.org/culture “Smartstudent” guide to studying in US – tells about US culture from the perspective of other cultures

http://www.health.state.ri.us/omh/home.htm This is the website of the Rhode Island office of Minority health, with summaries of different cultural groups.

http://www.hmongcenter.org This site provides information on the Hmong culture

http://erc.msh.org/ From here, click on “The Provider’s Guide to Quality and Culture.” This site is designed to help healthcare organizations throughout the world provide high quality, culturally competent care. Has info about different cultures.

http://www2.humnet.ucla.edu:591/folkmed/FMPro UCLA’s folk medicine archive resource. User can enter an illness and receive all sorts of information on various folk cures for the particular disease.

Books For Learning About Different Cultures:

Allende, Isabel. Daughter of Fortune. New York: HarperCollins, May 1999

Allmond, B.& Tanner, J. (1999) The family is the patient: using family interviews in children’s medical care, Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins.

Alvord, Lori Arviso and Van Pelt, Elizabeth Cole. The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navaho Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing.

Bluebond-Langner, Myra. In the Shadow of Illness: Parents and Siblings of the Chronically Ill Child. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Dubus III, Andre. The House of Sand and Fog. W.W. Norton & Co., 1999

Fadiman, Anne. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Dotors and the Collision of Two Cultures. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997.

Galanti, Geri-Ann. Caring for Patients from Different Cultures: Case Studies from American Hospitals. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997

Julia, Maria. Multicultural Awareness in the HealthCare Professions. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1996.

Tan, Amy. The Bonesetter’s Daughter. Putnam Publishing Group, 2001

McGoldrick, Monica; Giordano, Joe and Pearce, John. Ethnicity and Family Therapy. New York: The Guilford Press, 1996

Webb, Nancy. Culturally Diverse Parent-Child Relationships: A Guide for Social Workers and Other Practitioners. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.