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According to Andrews (1999), Sir Edward Tylor a British Anthropologist, is credited with defining the term 'culture'
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According to Andrews (1999), Sir Edward Tylor a British Anthropologist, is credited with defining the term 'culture'. Andrews (1999) explains culture as representing a way of perceiving, behaving and evaluating the world. It refers to the complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, arts, morals, law, custom, politics, technologies and any other capabilities or habits acquired by people as members of a society; including those pertaining to health and illness. The term 'transcultural nursing' was coined by Dr Madeleine M Leininger in the mid 1950s. It was only in the 1970s that the theory began to attract more widespread interest and concept development. It remains a relatively new area of study in the United Kingdom (UK). Transcultural nursing is a term used to describe a speciality within nursing focussed on the comparative study of different cultures and subcultures, which are examined in respect of their health and illness values, caring behaviour and...
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