Anthropology: a model for nursing
Anne Mulhall , Independent Research Consultant in Surrey
The links between anthropology and nursing are not as tenuous as they may at first appear. Social anthropology provides a relevant framework for understanding transcultural nursing and can help to explain some of the drawbacks of using transcultural ideas to care for patients from different cultures
Anthropology involves the holistic study of humankind including its ‘origins, development, social and political organisations, religions, languages, arts and artefacts’ (1). Many classical anthropological studies have been conducted in non-Western societies, and indeed the popular idea of the subject is the exploration of ‘exotic’ cultures.
Nursing Standard.
8, 31, 35-38.
doi: 10.7748/ns.8.31.35.s42
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