Decolonizing health care
Challenges of cultural and epistemic pluralism in medical decision‐making with Indigenous communities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21503979 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sara Marie Cohen‐Fournier (0000-0002-9503-7986, Psychiatry Department McGill University Montreal Quebec Canada, corresponding author), Gregory Brass (Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry McGill University Montreal Quebec Canada), L J Kirmayer (0000-0002-6228-1739, Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry McGill University Montreal Quebec Canada) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 767-778 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bioethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-9702 • E-ISSN: 1467-8519 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/bioe.12946 |
| PMID | 34551134 |
| OpenAlex | W3199753571 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada made it clear that understanding the historical, social, cultural, and political landscape that shapes the relationships between Indigenous peoples and social institutions, including the health care system, is crucial to achieving social justice. How to translate this recognition into more equitable health policy and practice remains a challenge. In particular, there is limited understanding of ways to respond to situations in which conventional practices mandated by the state and regulated by its legal apparatus come into direct conflict with the values and autonomy of Indigenous individuals, communities, and nations. In this paper, we consider two cases of conflict between Indigenous and biomedical perspectives to clarify some of the competing values. We argue for the importance of person‐ and people‐centered approaches to health care. These value conflicts must be understood at multiple levels to clarify their personal, social, cultural, and political dimensions. Taking into account the divergence between epistemic cultures and communities allows us to understand the multiple narratives deployed in decision‐making processes in clinical, community, and juridical contexts. Recognizing the knowledge claims of Indigenous peoples in health care can help clinicians avoid reinforcing the divides created by the structural and institutional legacy of colonialism. This analysis also provides ways to adjudicate conflicts in health care decision‐making by disentangling cultural, political, medical, and pragmatic issues to allow for respectful dialogue. Insofar as the engagement with cultural pluralism in health care rights is conducted with reciprocal recognition, the medical community and Indigenous peoples can address together the difficult question of how to integrate different epistemic cultures in the health care system
Autonomy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Health care · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Cultural Competency in Health Care · Ethics in medical practice · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law
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| Citations per year | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |