The first trend listed relates to diversity and its impact on disease and illness and the subsequent challenge to change education and practice to be congruent and respectful of differing values and beliefs. Implicit or explicit in the works of these authors are the notions of culture and of values. Both words have many interpretations but each word has a primary association with a discipline.
Culture s primary homebase is anthropology.
Value s primary homebase is philosophy, especially as it relates to ethics. One can identify subsets of words associated with each. For culture , terms that immediately come to mind are ethnocentrism, cultural imposition, cultural importation, and cultural exportation. For values , terms that immediately come to mind are belief systems and norms. Cultural Values, Ethics, and Ethical Conflicts Cultural values refer to enduring ideals or belief systems to which a person or a society is committed.