Beyond a Medical Model: Working with Diversity in Mind
In their work, Culture, Illness, and Care: Clinical Lessons from Anthropologic and Cross-Cultural Research, Kleinman, Eisenberg and Good (1978) used the term ‘explanatory model’ that defines how patients conceptualise and construct their illness. Conceptualising illness is an important facet of understanding the patient’s point of view, i.e., what their illness means to them. It offers […]