title: [Care and anthropology: a thinking process].
abstract: Caring for human beings, calls for relating unity and diversity in order to respect the equality of cultures and to recognize their cultural differences. Cultural difference is, however, privileged by recent publications within the culture caring domain, based on cultural relativism and disregarding the unity of humanity, transcultu-ral nursing theory is the case. For this reason, some historical elements related to the two original anthropological theories are included in this text to understand the philosophical and ethical implications of transcultural nursing theory. The objective of this article is to analyse six recent publications within the caring and anthropology field, through a reflexive method identifying two different caring traditions and demonstrating their philosophical and ethical reach for caring practice.
authors.affiliation: Anthropologue infirmière.
authors.forename: Cécilia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rohrbach Viadas
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural / Q000941:ethics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D004645:Empathy; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D009736:Nursing Process / Q000941:ethics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D016746:Transcultural Nursing / Q000941:ethics / Q000458:organization & administration*