Nurses' Work, the Sacred and the Profane

by Zane Robinson Wolf

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Today, birth, suffering, healing, and death--all powerful experiences--are closely associated with nurses. In Nurses' Work, The Sacred and The Profane , Zane Robinson Wolf reveals and examines the rituals nurses unconsciously establish to help them face their everyday involvement with the sacred events of human life. The nurses on 7H (a medical unit in the large urban hospital where Wolf did her research), like nurses everywhere, are under tremendous...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0812212665

ISBN13:9780812212662

Release Date:April 1988

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Length:324 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"

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