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Anthropology of Nursing: Exploring Cultural Concepts in Practice book cover

1st Edition

Anthropology of Nursing Exploring Cultural Concepts in Practice

Edited By Karen Holland Copyright 2020
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

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.

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