The body as an instrument of nursing care

Abstract

Talking about the body makes us think of a space, a being, an entity that feels and expresses itself. Nursing as a generator of care maintains close contact with the body that takes care of itself, that needs to be cared for as a being, and that expresses itself with body language, gestures, movements, and expressions with which the word is not necessary to express its feelings, its pain, and its needs. The nurse needs her senses to understand what the patient's body needs. The theme of the body as a classification system has been central to Mary Douglas’s anthropological vision, in which the primary means of classification has historically been the human body itself. The idea of ​​the body as a central metaphor of political and social order is a general theme in sociology and history. Anthropology mentions that in premodern societies the body is an important area on which marks of social status, family status, tribal affiliation, age, sex, and religious condition can be easily and publicly exposed. The use of symbolism of the body can also be associated with the fact that in premodern societies the differences attributed to condition and nature were more rigid and obvious. In certain theoretical and philosophical traditions, the importance of human incarnation has been forgotten; in other traditions of social theory, the human body was submerged as a powerful and somehow disguised subject.