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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.
The effectiveness of the nurse as a practitioner is increased by awareness and understanding of cross-cultural differences in, for example, religion, territoriality, and attitudes toward family. Even within the same society, cultural components of wellness and illness, such as tolerance for pain, may vary greatly.
Incorporating anthropological understandings and theories can help nursing students provide more culturally appropriate care to patients from diverse backgrounds. The disciplines also contribute to each other, as nursing brings insights into health care delivery that can benefit anthropological theory, while anthropology provides nursing with ...
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.
Transcultural nursing and child-rearing of the muckleshoot people. In M. Leininger (Ed.), Transcultural nursing care of infant and children (pp. 51-67). Proceedings of the First National Transcultural Nursing Conference. Salt Lake City: University of Utah.
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.
16 cze 2005 · We no longer have to rely on navel-gazing and speculation to understand why people are the way they are; we can instead turn to solid, objective findings. This book not only summarizes what we know about people; it also offers a coherent, easy-to-understand though radical, explanation.
