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AUTOR(ES) Lauren D Olsen
AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) Temple University
ANO 2021
TIPO Artigo
PERIÓDICO Social Problems
ISSN 0037-7791
E-ISSN 1533-8533
EDITORA Oxford University Press
DOI 10.1093/socpro/spaa012
CITAÇÕES 4
ADICIONADO EM 2025-08-18

Resumo

At the turn of the 21st century, one of the ways in which the U.S. medical profession attempted to address the rampant health and healthcare disparities facing their patient populations was to pay more attention to a patient's culture. Proving to be easier said than done, the operationalization of the social scientific concept of culture for clinical practice has been fraught with implementation difficulties—from clinician buy-in to stereotyping. I draw upon ethnographic data to detail how an interdisciplinary group of social scientists and clinicians work to translate a theoretically-complex, reflexive, and social-justice-oriented conceptualization of culture into a clinical intervention tool. As opposed to previous accounts of interdisciplinary collaboration that describe social science being ignored, marginalized, or non-commodifiable, I show how this group makes the anthropological concept of culture both clinically and commercially relevant and the importance of clinicians-as-consumers in the translational process.

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