Clinical encounters and culturally competent practice: the challenges of providing cancer and infertility care

TY - JOUR

T1 - Clinical encounters and culturally competent practice

T2 - the challenges of providing cancer and infertility care

AU - Atkin, Karl Michael

AU - Chattoo, Sangeeta

AU - Crawshaw, Marilyn Ailsia

N1 - © 2014 Policy Press. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Policy and Politics. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy.

PY - 2014/10

Y1 - 2014/10

N2 - This qualitative paper compares how practitioners respond to adults from two ethnic groupings (defined for analytical purposes as South Asian and White), whose fertility is threatened by cancer. Our findings suggest practitioners, in their struggle to offer culturally sensitive care, negotiate various competing ideas, reflecting wider cultural assumptions underpinning notions of ethnicity, gender, fertility and responsible parenthood within the context of premature death posed by a diagnosis of cancer. Wider social and political responses to minority ethnic groups often intersect with personal and professional judgements in influencing what practitioners regard as appropriate care. Our conclusion explores the need for a more pluralistic response to facilitating culturally competent care.

AB - This qualitative paper compares how practitioners respond to adults from two ethnic groupings (defined for analytical purposes as South Asian and White), whose fertility is threatened by cancer. Our findings suggest practitioners, in their struggle to offer culturally sensitive care, negotiate various competing ideas, reflecting wider cultural assumptions underpinning notions of ethnicity, gender, fertility and responsible parenthood within the context of premature death posed by a diagnosis of cancer. Wider social and political responses to minority ethnic groups often intersect with personal and professional judgements in influencing what practitioners regard as appropriate care. Our conclusion explores the need for a more pluralistic response to facilitating culturally competent care.

U2 - 10.1332/030557312X655675

DO - 10.1332/030557312X655675

M3 - Article

SN - 0305-5736

VL - 42

SP - 581

EP - 596

JO - Policy and Politics

JF - Policy and Politics

IS - 4

ER -