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Preface.

Foreword.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: Tools to Assess Cultural Competency Training (TACCT).

Case 1 Ruth Franklin: A 40-year-old African American woman with heart failure (Susan E. Wiegers and Horace DeLisser, MD).

Case 2 Carl Jones: A 48-year-old homeless Caucasian man with chest pain and lung cancer (Lisa Bellini).

Case 3 Maria Morales: A 57-year-old Mexican woman with type 2 diabetes (Desiree Lie and Charles Vega).

Case 4 Maya Mohammed: A 15-year-old Arab American teenager with leukaemia (Amal Mohamed Osman Khidir, Alexander Chou, and Lyuba Konopasek).

Case 5 Jon Le: A 48-year-old Korean man with cerebral hemorrhage (Scott Kasner and Horace DeLisser).

Case 6 Nadia Rosenberg: A 53-year-old Russian woman with drug-resistant tuberculosis (Elena N. Atochina-Vasserman and Helen Abramova).

Case 7 Isabel Delgado: A 47-year-old Dominican woman with hypertension (Debbie Salas-Lopez and Eric Gertner).

Case 8 George Dennis: A 35-year-old African American man with AIDS (Ronald G. Collman).

Case 9 Mary Jones: A 2-year-old Caucasian girl with delayed speech development (Dodi Meyer, Hetty Cunningham, Rica Mauricio and Alexandra Schieber).

Case 10 Priya Krishnamurthy: A 73-year-old South Asian Indian woman with a stroke (Scott Kasner, Roy Hamilton, Steven Mess´e and Sashank Prasad).

Case 11 Carlos Cruz: A 34-year-old Mexican man with sleep apnea and metabolic syndrome (Indira Gurubhagavatula, Lisa Hark and Sharon L. Drozdowsky).

Case 12 Denise Smith: A 41-year-old Caucasian woman with asthma (John Paul Sa´ nchez, Nelson Felix Sa´nchez and Ana Nunez, MD).

Case 13 Mae Ling Chung: A 22-year-old Chinese woman in an arranged marriage (Elizabeth Lee-Rey and Nereida Correa).

Case 14 Earl Collins: A 73-year-old African American man with lung cancer (Mitchell L. Margolis and Lisa Bellini).

Case 15 Irma Matos: A 66-year-old Ecuadorian woman with type 2 diabetes and hypertension (Edgar Maldonado and Debbie Salas-Lopez).

Case 16 Eileen Clark: An 82-year-old African American woman with a stroke (Scott Kasner and Horace DeLisser).

Case 17 Leslie O’Malley: A 66-year-old Irish American man with breast cancer (J. Eric Russell).

Case 18 Juana Caban: A 21-year-old Puerto Rican woman who is pregnant and HIV-positive (Lisa Rucker, Nadine T. Katz and Nicholas E.S. Sibinga).

Case 19 Alice Gregory: A 71-year-old African American woman with aortic stenosis (Susan E. Wiegers and Horace DeLisser, MD).

Case 20 Sunil Guha: A 32-year-old South Asian Indian man with metabolic syndrome (Fran Burke and Lisa Hark).

Case 21 Pepper Hawthorne: A 19-year-old Caucasian woman with a stroke (Scott Kasner).

Case 22 Alika Nkuutu: A 24-year-old African woman with sickle cell disease (J. Eric Russell).

Case 23 Miguel Cortez: A 9-year-old Mexican boy with asthma (Noel B. Rosales).

Case 24 Naomi Fulton: A 49-year-old African American woman with metabolic syndrome (Gail Marion and Lisa Hark).

Case 25 Bobby Napier: A 68-year-old Caucasian Appalachian man with type 2 diabetes (Elizabeth Lee-Rey, Sonia Crandall and Thomas A. Arcury).

Appendix 1: Positioning the Interpreter.

Appendix 2: Kleinman’s Explanatory Model of Illness.

Multiple Choice Questions.

Answers.

Index.