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Some cultural aspects of the Arab patient–doctor relationship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

M. Fakhr El-Islam
M. Fakhr El-Islam*
Affiliation:
Behman Hospital, Helwan, Cairo, Egypt, email: info@behman.com.
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Culture is a socially shared, trans-generationally transmitted system of implicit values, beliefs and attitudes and explicit behavioural practices (Kroeber & Kluckhohn, 1952). It includes religion. Culturally based assumptions infiltrate the patient–doctor relationship.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 2 , Issue 7 , January 2005 , pp. 18 - 20
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