TY - JOUR
T1 - Individualising difference, negotiating culture : intersections of culture and care
AU - Broom, Alex
AU - Kirby, Emma
AU - Kokanović, Renata
AU - Woodland, Lisa
AU - Wyld, David
AU - Souza, Paul de
AU - Koh, Eng-Siew
AU - Lwin, Zarnie
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - In this article, we focus on developing a critical sociology of ‘cultural and linguistic diversity’ as evident in cancer care praxis, drawing on the perspectives of cancer care health professionals. Set within the context of increasing efforts on the part of healthcare providers to ‘accommodate difference’ and ‘incorporate diversity’, we aimed to utilise participants’ accounts of practice to ask: how do we and how should we think about and operationalise ‘culture’ (if at all) in cancer care settings. Drawing on eight focus groups with doctors, nurses, allied health staff and multicultural community workers, here we explore their accounts of: othering and over-simplification; the role of absences in biographical reciprocity; intimacy, care and carelessness; and entanglements of culture with other aspects of the person. Based on their accounts, we argue for a broadening of the examination of the nexus of culture and care, to focus on the problematics of othering, intimacy, reciprocity and complexity.
AB - In this article, we focus on developing a critical sociology of ‘cultural and linguistic diversity’ as evident in cancer care praxis, drawing on the perspectives of cancer care health professionals. Set within the context of increasing efforts on the part of healthcare providers to ‘accommodate difference’ and ‘incorporate diversity’, we aimed to utilise participants’ accounts of practice to ask: how do we and how should we think about and operationalise ‘culture’ (if at all) in cancer care settings. Drawing on eight focus groups with doctors, nurses, allied health staff and multicultural community workers, here we explore their accounts of: othering and over-simplification; the role of absences in biographical reciprocity; intimacy, care and carelessness; and entanglements of culture with other aspects of the person. Based on their accounts, we argue for a broadening of the examination of the nexus of culture and care, to focus on the problematics of othering, intimacy, reciprocity and complexity.
KW - Australia
KW - cancer
KW - care
KW - culture
KW - patients
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:51237
U2 - 10.1177/1363459319829192
DO - 10.1177/1363459319829192
M3 - Article
SN - 1363-4593
VL - 24
SP - 552
EP - 571
JO - Health
JF - Health
IS - 5
ER -