| Description |
1 online resource (185 pages) |
| Contents |
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 nursingNursing 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development of ethnography; Ethnography and nursing research; Nursing ethnographies and 'making the familiar strange'; Unpublished doctorate studies; Personal note from Chapter Author; Published doctorate study; Undertaking an ethnographic study: an anthropological lens |
|
ConclusionReferences; 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 boundariesLearning 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 anthropologyMary 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 |
| Notes |
Withdrawal of treatment: observations and field notes (Templeman 2015) |
|
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9781317431169 |
|
1317431162 |
|
