Transcultural Nursing Ethics: A Framework and Model for Transcultural Ethical Analysis

Title: Transcultural Nursing Ethics: A Framework and Model for Transcultural Ethical Analysis
ABP identifier: ABP-W-0030
Date: 1994
Type: Journal article
Description: Marilyn A. Ray developed a model for ethical analysis in clinical encounters shaped by cultural difference. The framework combined caring practices, ethical principles, social values, and spiritual or religious beliefs, while treating interaction itself as transcultural rather than assuming a neutral clinical norm.
Intellectual stream: Clinical ethics & professionalism; Boundary expansion
Verification status: Verified
Evidence confidence: High
Historical significance: Ray developed a model for ethical analysis in clinical encounters shaped by cultural difference. The framework combined caring practices, ethical principles, social values, and spiritual or religious beliefs, while treating interaction itself as transcultural rather than assuming a neutral clinical norm. The article belongs to nursing ethics, but it also addresses a persistent limitation in mainstream bioethics: general principles can be applied without adequate attention to culture, power, interpretation, and the meaning of care. Its inclusion broadens the repository’s account of who produced bioethical knowledge in the 1990s. It also documents an effort to make cultural understanding part of moral reasoning rather than an optional matter of communication style.