Cultural and Social Considerations in Health Assessment: A Holistic Approach
About This Book
Chapter 1: History of Race and Racism Mackenzie Wiebe Important Concepts and Definitions Race is a way to categorize humans by their physical qualities, such as skin colour, eye shape, or hair texture (Smedley et al., 2020; Thurman et al., 2019). The concept of race was introduced in the 1600s, when Europeans were colonizing the Americas, Africa, Australia, and many parts of Asia (Santos Zanchetta et al., 2021; Smedley et al., 2020). By the 1700s, race was widely used to sort and rank people in
| Category | health-sciences |
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| Subject | Medicine and Nursing, Examination of patients, Nursing sociology |
| Year | 2023 |
| Authors | |
| Chapters | 11 |
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| Institution | Saskatchewan Polytechnic |
| License | Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Chapters
- Chapter 1: History of Race and Racism
- Chapter 2: Immigrant Health
- Chapter 3: Cross-Cultural Communication
- Chapter 4: Pain Assessment
- Chapter 6: Ear, Eye, Nose, Throat, and Dental Health
- Chapter 7: Respiratory System
- Chapter 9: Peripheral Vascular System
- Chapter 10: Gastrointestinal System
- Chapter 11: Endocrine System and Diabetes
- Chapter 13: Neurological System
- Chapter 14: End-of-life Care