Anthropology of Nursing - Exploring Cultural Concepts in Practice

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Holland, Karen (Professorial Fellow School of Nurs Holland, Karen (University of Salford Holland
• Assisted by: Karen Holland (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138912793
• ISBN: 978-1-138-91279-3
• No. of pages: 168
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Nursing; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Anthropology, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, Nursing, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, MEDICAL / Nursing / General, Midwifery, Medical Anthropology