Abstract
Beginning with cultural competency— used here in its simple sense to refer to any training health care professionals receive that is designed to enhance their understanding of the complex interplay between health seekers' values, beliefs, cultural practices, and everyday experiences of a non-biomedical nature (Wear 2003)—this paper argues that biomedical training systematically sets aside potentially contradictory knowledge about patients' and medical professionals' fundamental experiences of health. This education strategy intends to insulate established norms of practice from radical change and to discourage physicians in training from becoming aware that they could choose any number of normative ways to practice medicine.
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