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NURSING INQUIRY
Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages 144-153Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2006.00311.x
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critical culturalism; essentialism; ethnicity; health-care; nursing; race; racism; transculturalism
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This paper offers a critical commentary on the essentialist concept of ethnicity, which, it is argued, underpins the discourse of transcultural health-care. Following a consideration of the difficulties that ensue from the way in which ethnicity has been theorised within transcultural nursing in particular, the paper turns to a consideration of alternative ways of thinking about ethnicity, which have emerged from more recent social anthropology and postmodernism. It addresses the question of how to therorise ethnicity in a way that does not entail its reification as a set of fixed cultural properties, and makes some tentative suggestions for the possibility of a critical culturalist approach to difference and healthcare practice, which must include a consideration of racisms.
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