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But as a profession, nursing is a highly practical and well defined service role for delivering care to patients (Donaldson and Crowley 1978). Anthropology, even in its applied form, does not have a socially sanctioned (and therefore morally experienced) clinical, or service, mandate.
Both fields share a commitment to holism and studying humans and human interactions with their environments. Incorporating anthropological understandings and theories can help nursing students provide more culturally appropriate care to patients from diverse backgrounds.
Several key concepts from anth:opology and specific areas of individual interpersonal behavior have particular relevance to nursing education. It is important, for instance, that nurses understand the culture of the hospital, clinic, or other health service setting in which they work.
It is a solidarity that recognises the individual’s freedom to live life as it is achieved and not ascribed. In spite of the inclusion of the title ‘Body’, the book is characterised by an understanding of human experience and social life as it is primarily cognitively conceived.
Within cultural and medical anthropology, nursing was a field through which to understand broader cultural and societal values related to gender, care practices across cultures, and women's transnational labor migration.
Nursing research has an interest in the ways that individuals, families, communities, and healthcare systems derive meaning, and sustain (or abandon) cultural traditions, recognizing them as critical to understanding and influencing health and health behavior.
structure the introduction of anthropology to nurses and nursing, a major difference between the two poses all-too-real difficulties and challenges to the anthropologist working in a school of nursing. The difference lies in this: anthropology is solely an academic discipline - a structured approach to the search for knowledge; nursing,
