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Analysis of student definitions of culture
Author(s)	Maureen H Fitzgerald, Colleen Mullavey-O'Byrne
Journal title	Physical & Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics, vol 14, no 1, 1996
Pages	pp 67-89
Source	Haworth Document Delivery Center, Haworth Press, Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, USA.
Keywords	Students ; Occupational therapists ; Physiotherapists ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Social structure ; Australia.
Annotation	The concepts of culture and cultural issues have become a focus for the delivery of health care services in multi-cultural societies. While much attention has been directed towards explorations of cultural issues in health care contexts, few studies have explored understandings of the concept of culture. In this paper, the authors explore definitions of culture offered by a group of 715 occupational therapy, diversional therapy, and physiotherapy students in Australia. A simple content analysis of the definitions suggests that student health professionals tend to use a totalist or materialist view of culture, and often confuse the concept of culture with race and ethnicity. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-980513247 A
Classmark	XN: QTR: QTM: TOB: TM: 7YA
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