Caring Is Not a Conflict of Interest: Indigenous Care Values Versus Institutional Policies.
This article examines how health care policies that prohibit providers from caring for family members or others with whom they have relationships conflict with Indigenous approaches to care. These policies, framed as safeguards against conflicts of interest, are rooted in colonial models that privil...
| Publicado en: | International Journal for Human Caring Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 218 - 221 |
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Springer Publishing Company, Inc.
2025
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