Anthropology of Nursing - Exploring Cultural Concepts in Practice

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Principles of anthropology for nursing and health care 2. Culture and nursing: an anthropological perspective 3. Researching culture: principles of ethnography and ethnographic fieldwork 4. Time and space in the context of nursing work 5. Rituals, rites and nursing practice 6. Transition and initiation: the student nurse 7. Nursing work within nursing culture: images and reality 8. Dirt, pollution and the body: meaning for nursing practice 9. Withdrawal of treatment in the critical care unit: Insights into a trajectory of dying and death 10. Nursing and culture: language, knowledge and power

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Karen Holland is Editor in Chief of the journal Nurse Education in Practice and holds a position as part-time lecturer at the University of Salford in the School of Health and Society. She has written and edited a number of books for nurses and other health professionals.

Zusammenfassung

This book aims to introduce nurses and other healthcare professionals to how anthropology can help them understand nursing as a profession and as a culture.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Karen Holland, Karen (Professorial Fellow School of Nurs Holland, Karen (University of Salford Holland
• Mitarbeit: Karen Holland (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138912793
• ISBN: 978-1-138-91279-3
• Seiten: 168
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Pflege; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Sonstiges; Anthropology, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, Nursing, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, MEDICAL / Nursing / General, Midwifery, Medical Anthropology