Behind the screens: Nursing, Somology and the Problem of the Body - Softcover

Lawler, Jocalyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1920898255 ISBN 13: 9781920898250

Verlag: Sydney University Press, 2006

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Reseña del editor:

Readable and important, this book sheds light on the fundamental aspects of basic nursing that have previously been hidden, or taken for granted. The essence of these practices has not been regarded as formal knowledge, partly because there has been no formal language to describe them. Professor Jocalyn Lawler argues that the body is a problem in our society and she examines the intellectual background to the problem. She describes the pattern of relationships between the theoretical concepts of the body, body care, privacy, dirty work, women's work, and sexuality. The invisibility of nursing is linked with these concepts and with the lack of an academic discourse on the body as a whole. Drawing on the words of nurses themselves, Lawler describes how they deal with the problem of the body. From the interviews, she articulates the complexity and sophistication at the heart of the way nurses manage the bodies of others. And she coins a term, somology, that provides nursing with a language to describe the crucial social components of skilled nursing care. The work was first published in 1991. It has since been translated into Norwegian and French.

Biografía del autor:

In 1992 Jocalyn took up a chair in Nursing at the University of Sydney and from July1999 to January 2008 she was Dean of the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery. She is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Nursing and a Fellow of the College of Nursing, NSW. She was also made an Honorary Fellow of the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses.

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• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1920898255
• ISBN 13: 9781920898250
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256