Culture, Self and Diversity
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These core subject areas are key to the learning about the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and were idenitifed in the Committee of Deans of Australian Medical Schools Indigenous Health Curriculum Framework.
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Culture, Self and Diversity |
| Identify, acknowledge and analyse one's own cultural values and reflect on their implications for health care. |
| Describe and explore the influence of culture on perspectives, attitudes, assumptions, beliefs and behaviours. |
| Identify and analyse the epistemological construction of Western medical knowledge and how this might differ between cultures. |
| Acknowledge and analyse the limitations of one's own knowledge and perspectives and incorporate new ways of seeing, valuing and understanding with regard to Indigenous health practice. |
These curriculum resources will aid your teaching and enrich your curriculum, and help you achieve the key student attributes and outcomes.
Resources
Books
* Grossman, M (ed), 2004. Blacklines: An Anthology of Critical Writing by Indigenous Australians, Carlton South, Australia: Melbourne Univeristy Press.
* Kowal, E. 2006, 'Moving Towards the Mean: Dilemmas of Assimilation and Improvement', in T. Lea, E. Kowal & G. Cowlishaw (eds), Moving Anthropology: Critical Indigenous Studies, Charles Darwin University Press, Darwin, pp. 65–78.
Lock, M. & Gordon, D. (eds), 1988, Biomedicine Examined, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston.
Said, E W. 1995, 'Orientalism' in B, Ashcroft., G, Griffiths. & H, Tiffin. (eds.) The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, Routledge, London, pp. 87 - 91.
Journals
Croteau, JM. 1999, 'One Struggle through Individualism: Toward an Antiracist White Racial Identity'. Journal of Counseling & Development, Vol. 77, Issue 1, pp. 30-32.
Good, B. & Good, MJ. 1981, 'The Semantics of Medical Discourse', Sciences and Cultures, Sociology of the Sciences, vol. 5, pp.177- 212.
Holt, L. 1999, 'Pssst ... I Wannabe White' in McKay, B. (ed.), Unmasking Whiteness: Race Relations and Reconciliation, The Queensland Study Centre, Griffith University, pp. 39-44.
Indigenous Health Special Issue. 2003, British Medical Journal, Vol.327, no.7412.
Indigenous Health Special Issue. 2007, The Medical Journal of Australia, Vol.186, no.10.
Kleinman, A., Eisenberg, L. & Good, B. 2006, 'Culture, Illness, and Care: Clinical Lessons From Anthropologic and Cross-Cultural Research', Focus, Vol 4, pp. 140-149.
* Kowal, E and Paradies, Y, 2005. Ambivalent Helpers and Unhealthy Choices: Public Health Practitioners' Narratives of Indigenous Ill-health, Social Science & Medicine, pp. 1347-1357.
Walker, R., McPhee, R. & Osborne, R. 2000, 'Critical Reflections in Cross-Cultural Contexts' in Dudgeon, P., Garvey, S. & Pickett, H. (eds.), Working with Indigenous Australians: a Handbook for Psychologists, Gunada Press, Perth, pp 311 – 323.
Websites
Australian Indigenous Health Infonet
Australian Medical Association, Report cards on Indigenous Health
The Univeristy of Tasmania Indigenous Health Theme Bank
We are seeking additional resources, so if you have any publications, audio visual materials or websites that you recommend and would like to add to this list please email us using the contact us form.