3.10-P14Ethnic minority patients experience othering and distrust

Cultural identity, representation, and Othering

Globalisation is not a new experience. The anthropologist N.P. Pieterse (2004) maintains that anthropologists, economists, historians, political scientists and sociologists see it as a long-term historical process, which has witnessed, amongst others, the ancient population movements across and between continents and the diffusion of technologies (military technologies, numeracy, literacy, scie...

Recurrent laryngeal nerve injury: an experience with 310 thyroidectomies.

BACKGROUND Thyroid surgery has been associated with complications ranging from nerve injury to death. Improvements in techniques have reduced the mortality rate to minimum. Morbidity, however, remains a significant concern. This study was designed to determine the prevalence of recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) injury and duration of recovery following transient recurrent laryngeal nerve injury, ...

Sociology 310

• Context: concern with individualism as a modern phenomenon; attempt to present an ethical defense of individualism; how to reconcile individualism with ethical concern for other members of society? Durkheim rejects both the utilitarian defense of individualism found in classical liberalism and the collectivist rejection of individualism advanced by the church, the military, and the authoritar...

Distrust, race, and research.

BACKGROUND Investigators have voiced concerns that distrust of research and the medical community impedes successful recruitment of African Americans into clinical research. OBJECTIVES To examine possible differences in distrust by race and to determine to what extent other sociodemographic factors explain any racial differences in distrust. METHODS We analyzed data from 527 African America...

Trust, Distrust, and Power