This, that, and the other. Managing illness in a first-generation Korean-American family.
The use of Western medicine and of holistic traditional medicine and healing rituals is common in Korean-American families with a chronically ill member. I present a case as an example of the complexity of health management in first-generation Korean-American immigrants. Immigration and acculturation issues, Confucian-related sociocultural and psychological factors, and the psychiatric diagnosis of Western specialists all elicited family conflict leading to emotional and physiologic distress.
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Department of Anthropology, College of Social Sciences, San Jose State University, CA 95192-0113.
D000069:Acculturation; D000328:Adult; D003142:Communication; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007723:Korea / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D014481:United States