Narrative practices and multiculturalism

Narrative writing: Effective ways and best practices

A narrative is a brief summary of specific events experienced by patients, during the course of a clinical trial. Narrative writing involves multiple activities such as generation of patient profiles, review of data sources, and identification of events for which narratives are required. A sponsor outsources narrative writing activities to leverage the expertise of service providers which in tu...

Common Principles and Multiculturalism

Judgment on rightness and wrongness of beliefs and behaviors is a main issue in bioethics. Over centuries, big philosophers and ethicists have been discussing the suitable tools to determine which act is morally sound and which one is not. Emerging the contemporary bioethics in the West has resulted in a misconception that absolute westernized principles would be appropriate tools for ethical d...

Multiculturalism and Museums in China

Multiculturalism and the Australian Constitution

The poet Shelley once said that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.* 1 He was right. Societies are shaped by images, metaphors and tropes word-pictures of what particular societies stand for, what principles are important, where the societies are heading. These images are often constitutive in the sense that they provide a unifying language of public action, shape individuals...

Multiculturalism, chronic illness, and disability.

To gain at least an initial understanding of the underlying beliefs and attitudes in a cross-cultural situation, we believe that the three key points discussed in this paper should prove a significant point of departure: 1. Traditional beliefs about the cause of chronic illness or disability will play a significant role in determining family and community attitudes toward individuals with a dis...