PART ONE : FRAMEWORK FOR CULTURAL ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION TECHNIQUES : Introduction to transcultural nursing -- Communication -- Space -- Social organization -- Time -- Environmental control -- Biological variations -- PART TWO : APPLICATIONS OF ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION TECHNIQUES TO SPECIFIC CULTURAL GROUPS : African-Americans -- Mexican Americans -- Navajos -- Appalachians -- American Eskimos : the Yup'ik and Inupiat -- Japanese Americans -- Afghans and Afghan Americans -- Russian Americans -- Chinese Americans -- Filipino Americans -- Vietnamese Americans -- East Indian Hindu Americans -- Haitian Americans -- Jewish Americans -- Korean Americans -- French Canadians of Quebec origin -- Puerto Rican Americans.