Juliene G Lipson
Biographic Data
| ID | 177654 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juliene G Lipson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juliene G |
| FAMILY NAME | Lipson |
| SIGNATURE | LIPSON J G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, San Francisco |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Chapter 5
Brief History of Inclusion of Content on Culture in Nursing Education
Nursing has a long history of focusing on the cultural dimension of care, dating back to Florence Nightingale and the early days of public health nursing. Nursing education studies advocated for including social science concepts in nursing curricula well before the founding of the first university school of nursing in the United States in 1910. A brief review of the highlights of major nursing curriculum, licensing, funding, accreditation studies…
Current Approaches to Integrating Elements of Cultural Competence in Nursing Education
Cultural competence in nursing education is receiving renewed emphasis. Curricular input to incorporate such knowledge, attitudes, and skills encompasses a wide variety of teaching and learning methods. Five are described here: specialty focus, required courses, models, immersion experiences, and distance learning or simulation. Despite progress in incorporating cultural content into nursing curricula, several issues characterize all levels of nu…
Fań
The purpose of this study is to describe fań, a culturally constructed expression of emotional and psychological discomfort, from the perspective of 34 suicidal patients in Taipei, Taiwan. An important finding from this ethnographic study is an idiom of emotional distress, fań, which is not expressed as related to a body part like in most previous research on expressions of psychological symptoms in Chinese cultures. This description will help he…
Environmental Issues and Work
Multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS) is an acquired condition in which exposure to low levels of chemicals causes symptoms in multiple organ systems. Some 12%-16% of the U.S. population has some level of chemical sensitivity, 80% of whom are women. Attempts to reduce chemical exposures leads to enormous life difficulties at home, school, and workplace. We base our article on an ethnographic study of MCS in the United States and Canada. We descri…
Finding a Way
Community participation is embedded in primary health care and is key to improving the health and well-being of communities. The concept has not, however, been well studied particularly from the perspective of community members who participate. This article describes findings from qualitative interviews with five Afghan refugee women to explore their experience and the meaning of community participation. From data analysis, two themes emerged: Be…
The Cultural Context of Suicide Stigma in Taiwan
In the ethnographic study on which this article is based, the authors investigate experiences after a suicide attempt from the perspective of patients and their familymembers in Taiwan. Thirty-four patients and 49 family members or colleagues participated in interviews from the point of patients’ hospitalization to their return to the community. The postsuicide stigma suffered by patients and their families was based on such cultural themes as Su…
Multiple Chemical Sensitivities
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS), an intolerance to everyday chemical and biological substances in amounts that do not bother other people, is a medically contested condition. In addition to symptoms and the ongoing difficulties of living with this condition, this hidden and stigmatized disability strongly impacts social relationships and daily life. Based on an ethnographic study, this article introduces the context of MCS in terms of cultura…
Physical Activity Beliefs, Behaviors, and Cardiovascular Fitness of Mexican Immigrant Women
This descriptive study examined physical activity beliefs, behaviors, and cardiovascular fitness of a convenience sample of 51 married Mexican immigrant women (MIW) with children in Northern California. Standardized tools/procedures were used to measure the variables of interest and to determine cardiovascular fitness levels. The majority (78%) was not involved in regular physical activity and had below average or poor cardiovascular fitness (76%…
We are the Canaries
This ethnographic study investigates the experiences of living with multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), a condition increasing in prevalence but medically contested, on which very little qualitative research has been done. Participant observation included two treatment centers, a support organization, an Internet chat room, and conversations with MCS sufferers, activists, and educators. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 33 people wit…
Cultural Aspects of Disability
This article describes cultural and social issues related to disability based on the authors’ experiences as researchers, clinicians, activists, and personal experience. They address the complexity of the topic of disability subculture by arguing that there is not one disability subculture and then describe common themes that characterize the social context of people with disabilities and one highly visible disability subculture. Clinical and res…
Pregnancy, Birth, and Disability
This qualitative study examined the pregnancy, birth and postpartum experiences of 12 women with mobility-limiting physical disabilities. Analysis of semi-structured interviews of one to two hours revealed that the women's experiences were influenced by their own perspectives and the characteristics of health care system within which they were treated. The woman's experience included the effect of her disability, her resources, and her personalit…
Cross-Cultural Nursing
Ethnic Coalitions and Public Health
Working with ethnic coalitions is new in public health. The Afghan Health Education Project was funded by the California State Health Department to establish an Afghan coalition, do a community health assessment and plan culture/language appropriate health education. We describe attempts to balance the contract expectations with the cultural/political realities of the Afghan community, e.g., the dilemma of empowering people who refuse to take pow…
Health issues among Afghan women in California
Afghan refugee women are part of the largest refugee population in the world. In the United States, they deal with loss of family members, property, and status and cultural, familial, religious, role, and generational conflict in making the transition from a traditional patriarchal society to a more egalitarian postindustrial society. Findings from a San Francisco Bay Area Afghan community health assessment conducted from 1992 to 1993 are present…
Changing roles of afghan refugee women in the United States
Refugee women face many challenges, such as traumatic flight, loss of family members and property, and dramatic cultural differences in the country of resettlement. We examined the adjustment issues and role changes of Afghan women refugees in northern California. Afghans comprise the largest refugee population in the world, and continuing political turmoil prevents most Afghans in the United States from returning home. Data are presented from in…
The cultural consultant in mental health care
Limited understanding by mental health providers of an immigrant's cultural background can lead to misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment. A case involving the psychiatric hospitalization of an adolescent from Iraq is described, as are the role of a cultural consultant in clarifying cultural issues and the positive consequences for diagnosis and treatment. Implications for the training and function of cultural consultants in mental health care …
Hospitals and physicians in socio‐historical context
Colombotos, John and Corinne Kirchner. Physicians and Social Change. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. vii + 264 pp. including appendix, references, and index. $35.00 cloth. Lennard, Henry L. with Alexander Gralnick. The Psychiatric Hospital: Context, Values, and Therapeutic Process. New York: Human Sciences Press, 1986. 221 pp. including index, bibliography, references, and notes. $24.95 cloth. Risse, Guenter B. Hospital Life in Enlighten…
Afghan Refugee Health
Health problems are often associated with migration, particularly for refugees from such war-torn countries as Afghanistan. This article reports findings of an ethnographic study of Afghan refugees in Northern California. Participant observation and various informal and semistructured interviews of 29 refugees revealed difficulties in social support, cultural conflict, language, economics, and family adjustment. These difficulties, added to traum…
Assessing Arab-American health care needs
Methodological issues in research with immigrants
Uses of Anthropology in Nursing
The articles in this issue reflect a mutually rewarding relationship between nursing and anthropology over the past twenty years. In the late 1960s, such nurse-anthropologists as Agnes Aamodt, Eleanor Bauwens, Pamela Brink, Liz Byerly, Jody Glittenberg, Margarita Kay, Oliver Osborne, and Antoinette Ragucci were utilizing both fields in teaching, research and practice. Anthropology and nursing have a lot in common, such as a holistic view of human…
The Cultural Perspective in Nursing Education
Mr. F. makes me nervous. He looks at me in such an intense way. I've heard that in his country men and women don't touch each other unless they are married. I don't want to encourage him so I only do what's necessary and leave his room
Arab-American patients
Combining Researcher, Clinical and Personal Roles
The film project showed that the production and use of films is feasible and indeed, rather easy. We demonstrated that at least in the tested environment, films can have spectacular acceptability. We are satisfied that uncomplicated films with direct messages are easily perceived and understood by people who have had no prior exposure to cinema. But, we also learned that a program of this sort cannot work without fuel and will not be successful w…
Multiple Chemical Sensitivities
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS), an intolerance to everyday chemical and biological substances in amounts that do not bother other people, is a medically contested condition. In addition to symptoms and the ongoing difficulties of living with this condition, this hidden and stigmatized disability strongly impacts social relationships and daily life. Based on an ethnographic study, this article introduces the context of MCS in terms of cultura…
Assessing Arab-American health care needs
Combining Researcher, Clinical and Personal Roles
The film project showed that the production and use of films is feasible and indeed, rather easy. We demonstrated that at least in the tested environment, films can have spectacular acceptability. We are satisfied that uncomplicated films with direct messages are easily perceived and understood by people who have had no prior exposure to cinema. But, we also learned that a program of this sort cannot work without fuel and will not be successful w…
We are the Canaries
This ethnographic study investigates the experiences of living with multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), a condition increasing in prevalence but medically contested, on which very little qualitative research has been done. Participant observation included two treatment centers, a support organization, an Internet chat room, and conversations with MCS sufferers, activists, and educators. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 33 people wit…
Methodological issues in research with immigrants
Afghan Refugee Health
Health problems are often associated with migration, particularly for refugees from such war-torn countries as Afghanistan. This article reports findings of an ethnographic study of Afghan refugees in Northern California. Participant observation and various informal and semistructured interviews of 29 refugees revealed difficulties in social support, cultural conflict, language, economics, and family adjustment. These difficulties, added to traum…
Arab-American patients
Psychological integration of the cesarean birth experience
A woman's perception of her birth experience is likely to affect her psychological integration of it. This process may be prolonged and particularly difficult for cesarean mothers, whose number has been growing. Five phases of assimilation are outlined, and implications for health care professionals are presented
Jews for Jesus
This article explores syncretism as illustrated in data drawn from an ethnographic study of Jews for Jesus, a Hebrew Christian missionary organization. Classically used in anthropology to describe the reinterpretation and recombination of new and old forms and meanings that occurs in all culture change, syncretism is presently used in a more general sense to mean any combination of values from diverse sources. The concept is applicable to small A…
Combining Researcher, Clinical and Personal Roles
The film project showed that the production and use of films is feasible and indeed, rather easy. We demonstrated that at least in the tested environment, films can have spectacular acceptability. We are satisfied that uncomplicated films with direct messages are easily perceived and understood by people who have had no prior exposure to cinema. But, we also learned that a program of this sort cannot work without fuel and will not be successful w…
Arab-American patients
Uses of Anthropology in Nursing
The articles in this issue reflect a mutually rewarding relationship between nursing and anthropology over the past twenty years. In the late 1960s, such nurse-anthropologists as Agnes Aamodt, Eleanor Bauwens, Pamela Brink, Liz Byerly, Jody Glittenberg, Margarita Kay, Oliver Osborne, and Antoinette Ragucci were utilizing both fields in teaching, research and practice. Anthropology and nursing have a lot in common, such as a holistic view of human…
The Cultural Perspective in Nursing Education
Mr. F. makes me nervous. He looks at me in such an intense way. I've heard that in his country men and women don't touch each other unless they are married. I don't want to encourage him so I only do what's necessary and leave his room
Assessing Arab-American health care needs
Methodological issues in research with immigrants
Hospitals and physicians in socio‐historical context
Colombotos, John and Corinne Kirchner. Physicians and Social Change. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. vii + 264 pp. including appendix, references, and index. $35.00 cloth. Lennard, Henry L. with Alexander Gralnick. The Psychiatric Hospital: Context, Values, and Therapeutic Process. New York: Human Sciences Press, 1986. 221 pp. including index, bibliography, references, and notes. $24.95 cloth. Risse, Guenter B. Hospital Life in Enlighten…
Afghan Refugee Health
Health problems are often associated with migration, particularly for refugees from such war-torn countries as Afghanistan. This article reports findings of an ethnographic study of Afghan refugees in Northern California. Participant observation and various informal and semistructured interviews of 29 refugees revealed difficulties in social support, cultural conflict, language, economics, and family adjustment. These difficulties, added to traum…
The cultural consultant in mental health care
Limited understanding by mental health providers of an immigrant's cultural background can lead to misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment. A case involving the psychiatric hospitalization of an adolescent from Iraq is described, as are the role of a cultural consultant in clarifying cultural issues and the positive consequences for diagnosis and treatment. Implications for the training and function of cultural consultants in mental health care …
Changing roles of afghan refugee women in the United States
Refugee women face many challenges, such as traumatic flight, loss of family members and property, and dramatic cultural differences in the country of resettlement. We examined the adjustment issues and role changes of Afghan women refugees in northern California. Afghans comprise the largest refugee population in the world, and continuing political turmoil prevents most Afghans in the United States from returning home. Data are presented from in…
Health issues among Afghan women in California
Afghan refugee women are part of the largest refugee population in the world. In the United States, they deal with loss of family members, property, and status and cultural, familial, religious, role, and generational conflict in making the transition from a traditional patriarchal society to a more egalitarian postindustrial society. Findings from a San Francisco Bay Area Afghan community health assessment conducted from 1992 to 1993 are present…
Ethnic Coalitions and Public Health
Working with ethnic coalitions is new in public health. The Afghan Health Education Project was funded by the California State Health Department to establish an Afghan coalition, do a community health assessment and plan culture/language appropriate health education. We describe attempts to balance the contract expectations with the cultural/political realities of the Afghan community, e.g., the dilemma of empowering people who refuse to take pow…
Cross-Cultural Nursing
Cultural Aspects of Disability
This article describes cultural and social issues related to disability based on the authors’ experiences as researchers, clinicians, activists, and personal experience. They address the complexity of the topic of disability subculture by arguing that there is not one disability subculture and then describe common themes that characterize the social context of people with disabilities and one highly visible disability subculture. Clinical and res…
Pregnancy, Birth, and Disability
This qualitative study examined the pregnancy, birth and postpartum experiences of 12 women with mobility-limiting physical disabilities. Analysis of semi-structured interviews of one to two hours revealed that the women's experiences were influenced by their own perspectives and the characteristics of health care system within which they were treated. The woman's experience included the effect of her disability, her resources, and her personalit…
We are the Canaries
This ethnographic study investigates the experiences of living with multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), a condition increasing in prevalence but medically contested, on which very little qualitative research has been done. Participant observation included two treatment centers, a support organization, an Internet chat room, and conversations with MCS sufferers, activists, and educators. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 33 people wit…
Physical Activity Beliefs, Behaviors, and Cardiovascular Fitness of Mexican Immigrant Women
This descriptive study examined physical activity beliefs, behaviors, and cardiovascular fitness of a convenience sample of 51 married Mexican immigrant women (MIW) with children in Northern California. Standardized tools/procedures were used to measure the variables of interest and to determine cardiovascular fitness levels. The majority (78%) was not involved in regular physical activity and had below average or poor cardiovascular fitness (76%…
Finding a Way
Community participation is embedded in primary health care and is key to improving the health and well-being of communities. The concept has not, however, been well studied particularly from the perspective of community members who participate. This article describes findings from qualitative interviews with five Afghan refugee women to explore their experience and the meaning of community participation. From data analysis, two themes emerged: Be…
The Cultural Context of Suicide Stigma in Taiwan
In the ethnographic study on which this article is based, the authors investigate experiences after a suicide attempt from the perspective of patients and their familymembers in Taiwan. Thirty-four patients and 49 family members or colleagues participated in interviews from the point of patients’ hospitalization to their return to the community. The postsuicide stigma suffered by patients and their families was based on such cultural themes as Su…
Multiple Chemical Sensitivities
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS), an intolerance to everyday chemical and biological substances in amounts that do not bother other people, is a medically contested condition. In addition to symptoms and the ongoing difficulties of living with this condition, this hidden and stigmatized disability strongly impacts social relationships and daily life. Based on an ethnographic study, this article introduces the context of MCS in terms of cultura…
Environmental Issues and Work
Multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS) is an acquired condition in which exposure to low levels of chemicals causes symptoms in multiple organ systems. Some 12%-16% of the U.S. population has some level of chemical sensitivity, 80% of whom are women. Attempts to reduce chemical exposures leads to enormous life difficulties at home, school, and workplace. We base our article on an ethnographic study of MCS in the United States and Canada. We descri…
Brief History of Inclusion of Content on Culture in Nursing Education
Nursing has a long history of focusing on the cultural dimension of care, dating back to Florence Nightingale and the early days of public health nursing. Nursing education studies advocated for including social science concepts in nursing curricula well before the founding of the first university school of nursing in the United States in 1910. A brief review of the highlights of major nursing curriculum, licensing, funding, accreditation studies…
Current Approaches to Integrating Elements of Cultural Competence in Nursing Education
Cultural competence in nursing education is receiving renewed emphasis. Curricular input to incorporate such knowledge, attitudes, and skills encompasses a wide variety of teaching and learning methods. Five are described here: specialty focus, required courses, models, immersion experiences, and distance learning or simulation. Despite progress in incorporating cultural content into nursing curricula, several issues characterize all levels of nu…
Medicine (23 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Nursing (12 works) · Cultural Competency in Health Care (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (8 works) · Gerontology (7 works) · Health care (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works)