Nursing Bricolage in Twenty-First Century Tanzania : How Two New Healthcare Programs Incorporate Tribal Culture, Western Medicine and Evangelism

ISBN-13: 9783639201581 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 112 str.

Magdeline Aagard

Opis

As the world becomes increasingly globally connected nursing anthropology has come to the fore as a method of forming foundations that cross cultures. Increasing our understanding of the practice of nursing and nursing leadership is critical to forming a basis for our continued discourse. This study examines the development by one nurse of two healthcare programs which combine the disparate aspects of traditional culture, Western medicine and evangelism to reach a successful end. The methodological tradition employed in this study is qualitative, ethnographic and case study based. Combining these methods allowed for increasing our understanding of the development by one individual of two healthcare programs within a specific cultural context.

O autorze

Dr. Magdeline Aagard is an Associate Professor of Nursing at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, MN, USA. She teaches courses in the master's and doctoral programs in Transcultural Nursing in Community and Transformational Leadership in Nursing. Dr. Aagard teaches and serves as a consultant to hospitals internationally.