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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.
Drawing on key anthropological concepts, the book facilitates the understanding and cri-tical consideration of nursing practice, as seen across a wide range of health care contexts, and which impacts the delivery of appropriate care for service users.
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.
objective in this study was the use of anthropological and social sci ence research methods (interviewing techniques, participant observa tion, and a questionnaire) ta gain insights into nursing values and behaviors. "Applied Anthropology" provided an important function in this investigation.
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.
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.
Specifically, the main learning objective of introduction to sociocultural anthropology is to familiarize students with the basic ideas, issues, concepts and principles of anthropology. Students will be able to describe the meaning, scopes, methods, history and uses of anthropology, and its relations to other disciplines. The
