Anthropology of Nursing - Exploring Cultural Concepts in Practice

Sommario

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

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Karen Holland, Karen (Professorial Fellow School of Nurs Holland, Karen (University of Salford Holland
• Con la collaborazione di: Karen Holland (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138912793
• ISBN: 978-1-138-91279-3
• Pagine: 168
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Cura e assistenza; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Altro; Anthropology, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, Nursing, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, MEDICAL / Nursing / General, Midwifery, Medical Anthropology