Open AccessHistoric perspectives from anthropology. Reflections proposed to Transcultural Nursing
Author(s) -
Cécilia Rohrbach Viadas
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
investigación y educación en enfermería/investigación y educación en enfermería
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.209
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 2216-0280
pISSN - 0120-5307
DOI - 10.17533/udea.iee.v33n2a20
Subject(s) - universalism , relativism , panorama , cultural relativism , applied anthropology , sociocultural anthropology , anthropology , cultural anthropology , sociology , medical anthropology , transcultural nursing , anthropology of art , epistemology , nursing , philosophy , medicine , history , political science , health care , art history , art , human rights , law , politics , contemporary art , performance art , visual arts
History brings together meanings related to earlier periods, being aware of the past as a panorama to reread the present. Madeleine Leininger presented in 1970 an implicit and respectful message to the Nursing Profession when introducing Nursing and Anthropology. Two Worlds to Blend. Implicitly: Nursing you disregard culture. This article shows the absence of the history of anthropology and of nursing within Transcultural Nursing and it includes how education has influenced theoretic, methodological, and comparative approaches giving researchers the responsibility to decide their fundamentals. Berthoud (2001) has inspired the anthropological and historic perspectives of the author, thus universalism, relativism, and comparison are presented.