Front Matter

Lawler, Jocalyn

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dc.contributor.author	Lawler, Jocalyn
dc.date.accessioned	2008-05-02
dc.date.available	2008-05-02
dc.date.issued	2006-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	Behind the screens: nursing, somology and the problem of the body	en
dc.identifier.isbn	1920898255
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2391
dc.description	Behind the screens is a book about nursing. It 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. Experienced and beginning practitioners will identify with many aspects of this discussion. 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. Readable and important, Behind the screens adds to knowledge about knowledge and to knowledge about nursing. The work was first published in 1991. It has since been translated into Norwegian as Bak skjermbrettene: sykepleie, og kroppslige problemer, and French as La Face Cachée des Soins: Soins au corps, intimité et pratique soignante.	en
dc.publisher	Sydney University Press	en
dc.rights	Copyright Sydney University Press	en
dc.subject	Nursing	en
dc.subject	Somology	en
dc.subject	Body	en
dc.subject	Care	en
dc.title	Front Matter	en
dc.type	Book chapter	en