Highly successful acts of transcultural transmission of knowledge rest on an approach to translation that for the most part is highly literal. In the present lecture, I describe this methodology and show how it has not been applied in the westward transmission of Chinese medicine. Through practical examples, I demonstrate the conceptual problems that arise through failure to choose the methodol...

Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Psychiatry Section, Karolinska Institute, Psykoterapienheten City, Karlavägen 53, 11449 Stockholm, Sweden 2 Transcultural Centre, Stockholm County Council, S:t Göran’s Hospital, Stockholm Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Psychiatry Section, Karolinska Institute, S:t Göran’s Hospital, Stockholm Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Psychiatry Section, Karo...

The provision of culturally competent care helps reduce healthcare inequalities. There is a positive association between the cultural competence nursing professionals and patient satisfaction, also nurses' self-efficacy patients' adherence to treatment. While training in this respect important, self-assessment skills should be addressed. To produce culturally-validated Spanish-language version ...

Abstract The conference and special issue of Trajectory Emerging Media Technology Companies at the Journal Transcultural Communication explore how transnational media technology corporations transform global communication. We leveraged various analytical tools to examine companies’ structure, country-specific advantages, regulation methods development dynamics, system models, transcultural impl...

Resumo Objetivo Realizar a adaptação transcultural da escala Attitudes about Poverty and Poor People para estudantes de enfermagem brasileiros. Métodos Trata-se um estudo metodológico transcultural. Seguiram-se as fases: tradução, síntese, retrotradução, reunião com tradutores, peritos, validação conteúdo, pré-teste e entrevistas cognitivas. A amostra aplicação foi composta dez uma instituição ...

Regardless of where they live or under what circumstances, mothers throughout the world seem to have a compelling desire to provide the best possible health care for their children (Huston, 1979). Haitian mothers living in the Dominican Republic were no exception. The health beliefs and practices of these mothers related primarily to diarrhea among their children which demonstrated a concern an...