AbstractsMedical & Health Science

Eye of the other within artistic autoethnographic evocations of the experience of cross-cultural health work in Vanuatu

by Karen M Scott-Hoy




Institution: University of South Australia, [2000
Department:
Degree: PhD
Year: 0
Keywords: Allied health personnel Vanuatu Eye Care and hygiene Medical care Medicine and art Transcultural medical care
Record ID: 1046824
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Abstract

This thesis endeavours to explore, describe and portray the author's attempt to work with the people of Vanuatu, a small island nation in the South Pacific, establishing a preventative eye care project. The goal of this study is to offer a contribution to the understanding of cross-cultural health work in Vanuatu.