Cultural history and aesthetics of nursing care.
The aim of this study was to clarify the role of aesthetics in the organization and motivation of care through history. The guiding questions were: What values and aesthetic feelings have supported and motivated pre-professional and professional care? and Based on what structures has pre-professional and professional care been historically socialized? Primary and secondary sources were consulted, selected according to established criteria with a view to avoiding search and selection bias. Data analysis was guided by the categories: "habitus" and "logical conformism". It was found that the relation between social structures and pre-professionals (motherhood, religiosity) and professional aesthetic standards (professionalism, technologism) of care through history is evidenced in the caregiving activity of the functional unit, in the functional framework and the functional element. In conclusion, in social structures, through the socialization process, "logical conformism" and "habitus" constitute the aesthetic standards of care through feelings like motherhood, religiosity, professionalism, technologism and humanism.
Departamento de Enfermería, Universidad de Alicante, España. jose.siles@ua.es
José
J
Siles González
Maria del Carmen Solano
Mdel C
Ruiz
D003469:Culture; D004954:Esthetics; D006676:History of Nursing; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D009729:Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards*; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing