When Doctors, Nurses, and Patients All Disagree: What are cultural barriers in the clinic and what to do about them?
主講人：駱明正Ming-Cheng M. Lo（UC-Davis, Sociology）
主持人：吳嘉苓（台灣大學社會學系教授）
時間：2019年1月3日（四）12:30-14:00
地點：台灣大學社會學系319室
演講介紹：Cultural barriers are an important issue in healthcare in the U.S. – a predominantly white institution serving an increasingly diverse patient population. Based on 110 qualitative interviews, this research analyzes the conflicting perspectives of doctors, nurses, and immigrant patients regarding what are cultural barriers and, relatedly, cultural competency. Doctors tend to locate the source of the problem in immigrant patients’ cultural values and practices. Immigrants experience the norms of hospital bureaucracy as the fundamental cultural barriers. Bicultural immigrant nurses face racialized discourses of medical “deservingness” as the key challenge in their cultural brokerage work. Contrasting these diverse perspectives, this project reveals how intersecting hegemonies shape the most expensive healthcare system in the world.
講者背景：Ming-Cheng Miriam Lo, professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis, is devoted to supporting underrepresented groups and ensuring that the voices of these groups are included in academic, policy, and public conversations. Having grown up in Taiwan and completed her doctoral training in the United States, Professor Lo is actively engaged in research activities in Asia as well as the English-speaking world, meanwhile pursuing productive conversations across these cultural divides. She is the author of Doctors within Borders: Profession, Ethnicity, and Modernity in Colonial Taiwan (University of California Press, 2002; Japanese edition published in 2014). She has published articles on a variety of topics, including health, culture, immigration, and civil society.