Anthropology of Nursing : Exploring Cultural Concepts in Practice (Paperback)

Part 1: Theoretical concepts in anthropology of nursing and contexts of care 1. Principles of anthropology for nursing and health care 2. Culture: an anthropological meaning 3. Researching culture: principles of ethnographic fieldwork 4. Temporality and spatiality in nursing 5. Rituals, rites and nursing practice 6. Dirt and pollution: meaning for nursing practice Part 2: Application of anthropological concepts in nursing practice 7. Transition, ritual and status passage in nursing 8. Nursing work within nursing culture: metaphors and reality 9. Mental health, student nurses and anthropology Andrew Bassett 10: Organisational culture and impact on care delivery Tony Warne 11. The dying patient: anthropological insights Jenni Templeman 12. Ethnographies in nursing, midwifery and other health care professions