- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1036575/pdf/medhist00047-0114.pdf
- http://www.conaa.org/en/calls-announcements.htm
- http://www.medanthro.net/
The first is an article about nursing and anthropology. The second is the website for the Council on Nursing and Anthropology- I never even knew that existed! The third is the Society for Medical Anthropology's website which is part of the AAA. It is pretty neat to just explore the websites.
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Being a nursing student I looked at the few web sites about nursing and anthropology. The second one (http://www.conaa.org/en/mission.htm)struck me as very interesting. I didn’t really understand how anthropologist and nurses related; was it a nurse who was curious about the anthropological side of the practice, or an anthropologist that focused on nursing or something else? Because of my curiosity I started to explore on the site. It is very interesting because the people in the Council on Nursing and Anthropology (CONAA) are both nurses and anthropologists.
The organization started in1969 by nurses who decided to get an additional degree in anthropology. On the web site it is stated that their mission is “to explore culture and client care, and prepare nurses as culturally-competent caregivers”. This is very cool because every patient is different and needs individualized treatment. Even though there is no such thing as race in terms of genetics (as stated in the text book Seeing Anthropology, 4th ed), sometimes races have a general medical reaction to a certain treatment (such as most minority races don’t do as well in chemo as the white race does) or are more prone to a certain medical issue (such as how African Americans are more prone to get sickle cell disease).
It is necessary for people, especially in medicine, to be familiar with cultures so that they can not only respect their traditions and comfort zones, but to be aware of differences in the culture that may have to do with genetics so that the patient many be diagnosed and therefore treated properly. The organization is very interesting and relevant to the medical world. If anyone is interested in proper treatment techniques due to a difference in cultures and generalized biological differences between races I highly recommend this website.
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