1st Edition

Anthropology of Nursing Exploring Cultural Concepts in Practice

Edited By Karen Holland Copyright 2020
    184 Pages
    by Routledge

    184 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Drawing on key anthropological concepts, the book facilitates the understanding and critical 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. Considering the fields in which nurses work, the book argues that in order for nurses to optimize their roles as deliverers of patient care, they must not only engage with the realities of the cultural world of the patient, but also that of their own multi-professional cultural environment.

    The only book currently in the field on anthropology of nursing, this book will be a valuable resource for nursing students at all academic levels, especially where they can pursue specific modules in the subject, as well as those other students pursuing medical anthropology courses. As well as this, it will be an essential text for those post-graduate students who wish to consider alternative world views from anthropology and their application in nursing and healthcare, in addition to their undertaking ethnographic research to explore nursing in all its fields of practice.

    1 Principles of anthropology for nursing and health care

    Karen Holland

    2 Culture and nursing: an anthropological perspective

    Karen Holland

    3 Researching culture: principles of ethnography and ethnographic fieldwork

    Karen Holland

    4 Time and space in the context of nursing work

    Karen Holland

    5 Rituals, rites and nursing practice

    Karen Holland

    6 Transition and initiation: the student nurse

    Karen Holland

    7 Nursing work within nursing culture: images and reality

    Karen Holland

    8 Dirt, pollution and the body: meaning for nursing practice

    Karen Holland

    9 Withdrawal of treatment in the critical care unit: insights into a trajectory of dying and death

    Jenni Templeman

    10 Nursing and culture: language, knowledge and power

    Benny Goodman

    Index

    Biography

    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.