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Some cultural aspects of the Arab patient–doctor relationship

  • El-Islam M
International Psychiatry (2005) 2(7) 18-20
DOI: 10.1192/s1749367600007116
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Abstract

Culture is a socially shared, trans-generationally transmitted system of implicit values, beliefs and attitudes and explicit behavioural practices (Kroeber & Kluckhohn, 1952). It includes religion. Culturally based assumptions infiltrate the patient–doctor relationship.

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El-Islam, M. F. (2005). Some cultural aspects of the Arab patient–doctor relationship. International Psychiatry, 2(7), 18–20. https://doi.org/10.1192/s1749367600007116

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