TY - JOUR
T1 - The (co)production of difference in the care of patients with cancer from migrant backgrounds
AU - Broom, A.
AU - Parker, R.
AU - Raymond, S.
AU - Kirby, E.
AU - Lewis, S.
AU - Kokanović, R.
AU - Adams, J.
AU - de Souza, Paul
AU - Woodland, L.
AU - Wyld, D.
AU - Lwin, Z.
AU - Koh, E.-S.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - An extensive body of scholarship focuses on cultural diversity in health care, and this has resulted in a plethora of strategies to “manage” cultural difference. This work has often been patient-oriented (i.e., focused on the differences of the person being cared for), rather than relational in character. In this study, we aimed to explore how the difference was relational and coproduced in the accounts of cancer care professionals and patients with cancer who were from migrant backgrounds. Drawing on eight focus groups with 57 cancer care professionals and one-on-one interviews with 43 cancer patients from migrant backgrounds, we explore social relations, including intrusion and feelings of discomfort, moral logics of rights and obligation, and the practice of defaulting to difference. We argue, on the basis of these accounts, for the importance of approaching difference as relational and that this could lead to a more reflexive means for overcoming “differences” in therapeutic settings.
AB - An extensive body of scholarship focuses on cultural diversity in health care, and this has resulted in a plethora of strategies to “manage” cultural difference. This work has often been patient-oriented (i.e., focused on the differences of the person being cared for), rather than relational in character. In this study, we aimed to explore how the difference was relational and coproduced in the accounts of cancer care professionals and patients with cancer who were from migrant backgrounds. Drawing on eight focus groups with 57 cancer care professionals and one-on-one interviews with 43 cancer patients from migrant backgrounds, we explore social relations, including intrusion and feelings of discomfort, moral logics of rights and obligation, and the practice of defaulting to difference. We argue, on the basis of these accounts, for the importance of approaching difference as relational and that this could lead to a more reflexive means for overcoming “differences” in therapeutic settings.
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:66395
U2 - 10.1177/1049732320930699
DO - 10.1177/1049732320930699
M3 - Article
SN - 1552-7557
SN - 1049-7323
VL - 30
SP - 1619
EP - 1631
JO - Qualitative Health Research
JF - Qualitative Health Research
IS - 11
ER -
