Anthropology of Nursing: Exploring Cultural Concepts in Practice

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of boxes
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Principles of anthropology for nursing and health care
	Introduction
	Principles of anthropology
	Culture and anthropology
	Anthropology and nursing
	Conclusion
	References
	Further reading
2. Culture and nursing: an anthropological perspective
	Introduction
	Nursing as both an occupation and profession
	The development of modern nursing: probationers, training and the status of nurses
	Modern nursing: professional registration and the development of nursing
	Nursing as a culture and subculture: the cultural context of nursing
	Conclusion
	References
	Further reading
3. Researching culture: principles of ethnography and ethnographic fieldwork
	Introduction
	Ethnography
	Ethnographic studies: an insight into development of ethnography
	Ethnography and nursing research
	Nursing ethnographies and ‘making the familiar strange’
	Unpublished doctorate studies
	Personal note from Chapter Author
	Published doctorate study
	Undertaking an ethnographic study: an anthropological lens
	Conclusion
	References
	Further reading
4. Time and space in the context of nursing work
	Introduction
	Nursing work
	Time and space in the culture of nursing work
	Time, nursing work and culture
	Spatial contexts of nursing work
	Nursing time and nursing space
	Conclusion
	References
	Further reading
5. Rituals, rites and nursing practice
	Introduction
	Ritual and initiation
	Routine and ritual
	Rituals and symbols
	Rites of passage
	Nursing rituals
	Conclusion
	References
	Further reading
6. Transition and initiation: the student nurse
	Introduction
	Student nurse and occupational boundaries
	Learning to be a nurse: historical context and models
	Learning to nurse: place and time
	Initiation of student nurse: temporal, spatial and cultural context
	Conclusion
	References
	Further reading
7. Nursing work within nursing culture: images and reality
	Introduction
	Work and labour
	Nursing work in a political and social context
	Nursing and the nurse: the images over time
	Nursing work in different cultural contexts
	Conclusion
	References
	Further reading
8. Dirt, pollution and the body: meaning for nursing practice
	Introduction
	The body and anthropology
	Mary Douglas and the body
	Dirt and pollution: some anthropological observations
	The body, dirt and pollution in nursing work
	Conclusion
	References
	Further Reading
9. Withdrawal of treatment in the critical care unit: insights into a trajectory of dying and death
	Introduction
	The critical care scene: a unique cultural space
	Decision to withdraw treatment
	Drawing the curtains and creating a space for dying
	Awareness of dying
	The ‘good death’
	Liminality
	Spatiality and temporality
	Social death
	Viewing death as a failure
	Withdrawal of treatment: observations and field notes (Templeman 2015)
	Conclusion
	References
	Further reading
10. Nursing and culture: language, knowledge and power
	Introduction
	Anthropology and the centrality of culture
	Understanding structure, agency and culture
	Subject positioning of nurses and patients
	Discourse
	Foucault, governmentality and health care culture
	The biomedical discourse
	Discourses on health inequalities
	Conclusion
	References
	Further reading
Index