The late 1990s marked the beginning of a movement within the human services professions that stressed the importance of cultural competency. Psychology and social work were the pioneers; these fields ...

Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD, FACOG, a distinguished infertility specialist, highlights the pivotal role of cultural humility, diversity, acknowledgment of historical injustices, and collective action ...

Relevant beyond health care, cultural humility can more appropriately be thought of as a basic approach toward others; an approach that would be helpful on both sides of the current social dialogue.

A presentation during the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting addressed end-of-life care and how it is influenced by patient spirituality. One education session titled “Knowing ...

I once received a sign-out on a patient from the emergency department for a well-appearing young child who was admitted for a urinary tract infection. Normally, a simple urinary tract infection does ...

IT was Matthew Arnold, read and reverenced by the generation immediately preceding our own, who set to our eyes a definition and a goal of culture which has become the common property of all our world ...

Creative expression—whether through writing, music, visual arts, or other modalities—allows us to expand our understanding of ourselves and each other. It can also help us develop and embody cultural ...

I came of age during the 1980s at the onset of the AIDS epidemic. Living in the San Francisco Bay Area, our news, talk shows, and conversations were steeped in fear, othering, and shame about folks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The digitally-based academy, intended for young children, is offering a new feature to teach diversity, equity, and inclusion ...

Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks: Thanks for family, for good health and for … Thanksgiving Day shopping? Uh, no thanks on that last one. Thanksgiving, sadly, is becoming the forgotten holiday, ...