Unmasking the predicament of cultural voyeurism: A postcolonial analysis of international nursing placements

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 190-201

  Racine, Louise ^a   Perron, Amélie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bakhtin; Cultural safety; Cultural voyeurism; International placements; Postcolonial feminism; Undergraduate nursing education

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATION; FEMINISM; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; NOMENCLATURE; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING THEORY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLITICAL SYSTEM; TRANSCULTURAL CARE;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; COLONIALISM; EDUCATION, NURSING, BACCALAUREATE; FEMINISM; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TRANSCULTURAL NURSING;

EID: 84864952757     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: 14401800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2011.00555.x     Document Type: Article

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