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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.
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.
1 lip 2012 · Nurse anthropologist, Madeleine Leininger, developed the culture care theory and ethnonursing research method to help researchers study transcultural human care phenomena and discover the knowledge nurses need to provide care in an increasingly multicultural world.
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.
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.
Sociology can be defined most simply as the study of ‘human social life’ (Giddens, 2006, p. 4) (also see chapter 1 for a further discussion of defining sociology). A sociological approach to nursing locates the work of individual nurses squarely within a social context rather than considering it in isolation.
