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Book Review: PROMOTING CULTURAL DIVERSITY: STRATEGIES FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS Kathryn Hopkins Kavanagh & Patricia H. Kennedy Sage Publications, 1992. Pp. 162, Pb. £13.50; ISBN 0-8039-4657-0

This small book, written by two American authors, is mainly aimed at the teaching of culturally sensitive communication to nurses and other health professionals. It contains three parts including a discussion of conceptual issues, an outline of some relevant modes of intervention and a number of case studies to be used as teaching aides. For the most part the material is cross-culturally applicable, but occasionally the authors outline contexts and scenarios which are uniquely American and therefore of less use to European and other readers. The aim of the authors, namely to provide a framework within which health professionals can understand and make use of cultural diversity, is based on the crosscultural counselling models of Paul Pedersen and Madeleine Leininger. However, the authors’ rendering of the concepts and the problems is sometimes superficial and imprecise as is their discussion of relativism, which leaves the reader without pragmatic guidelines about what to do in very real treatment situations when this issue often appears