Abstract
The articles in this issue reflect a mutually rewarding relationship between nursing and anthropology over the past twenty years. In the late 1960s, such nurse-anthropologists as Agnes Aamodt, Eleanor Bauwens, Pamela Brink, Liz Byerly, Jody Glittenberg, Margarita Kay, Oliver Osborne, and Antoinette Ragucci were utilizing both fields in teaching, research and practice. Anthropology and nursing have a lot in common, such as a holistic view of human beings and a humanistic rather than positivistic stance. In "Nursing: A Social Policy Statement" (American Nurses' Association, 1980) nursing was defined as "…the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential health problems" (emphasis ours). "Human responses to" differentiates nursing from medicine, and nursing potentially includes the whole range of human responses and the social, cultural, psychological, and environmental factors that affect such responses.
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