Patients rewarded: a consideration of the English Patient and the representation of nursing.
This paper explores the representation of nursing in the 1997 Academy Award winning film The English Patient (Director Minghella 1996). It examines the way in which the concerns and dilemmas that have become commonplace in nursing literature are represented through the experiences of the character Hana. In particular, it is concerned with the way in which the essence of what it means to be a nurse, and its loss and reclamation, is epitomized through Hana and her encounters with Count Almasy (the English patient) and the bomb-disposal expert Kip. Finally, it suggests that there is much to be gained from a close examination of the representation of nursing in popular culture.
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Faculty of Nursing, University of Western Sydney, Nepean, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia.
D002321:Career Choice; D006801:Humans; D009040:Motion Pictures; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D012938:Social Perception