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The book shows how trained transcultural mediators help to redress the power imbalance between doctors and the migrants they treat, providing patients with advocates who respect the authority of their experiences. Its groundbreaking insights can be applied to any medical situation where doctors and patients find themselves speaking different languages.
List of contents
Series Foreword by Javier I. Escobar
Foreword by Jaswant Guzder
Prologue: "When I was two years old, I killed my grandmother"
Introduction
1. The Title Deed of Grandfather Léon
2. An Angry Man
3. "If You're a Human Being, Change Your Skin Immediately!"
4. Who Will Carry the Parasol for Me?
5. When the Black Cat Bit
6. The Curse
7. Leave Me Out of All This!
8. A Defaced Skin
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
About the author
SERGE BOUZNAH is a public health physician specializing in transcultural clinical practice. In 1988 he founded one of the first services of transcultural mediation in France. He is currently the director of the Centre Babel at the Hôpital Cochin-Paris and heads the department for mediation practice in transcultural situations at the Université Paris Descartes.
CATHERINE LEWERTOWSKI is a physician who specializes in transcultural approaches. She currently oversees the primary health centers for mothers and children in the department of Seine Saint-Denis. She is the author of Soigner: Le virus et le fétiche (Cure: The virus and the fetish, with Tobie Nathan), Les enfants de Moissac, 1939-1945 (The children of Moissac, 1939-1945), and Papi Nougat n'est pas mort (Papi Nougat is not dead).
CARMELLA ABRAMOWITZ MOREAU studied social anthropology and English literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She holds a Graduate Certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language from McGill University and an MA in translation from the University of London. She lives and works in Paris.
