Doctoral Dissertation Research: Education and Gendered Dilemmas in the Papua New Guinea Highlands

纽约大学博士生芭芭拉·A.由雷纳拉普博士监督的安德森将调查西方专业标准在非西方情况下的当地实施和文化调解。研究的重点是护理教育。这项研究将在巴布亚新几内亚东部高地省的戈罗卡镇作为人种学研究进行。研究者将采用社会科学的方法，包括参与者观察，生活史访谈和教育和临床环境中的话语实践分析。研究者的焦点研究问题是：1）护士如何学习参与生物医学的普遍类别和当地的变化的性别关系？2)如何将护理分类为“妇女的工作”影响护士的科学和道德框架？3)在临床环境中，护理的性别化是否会影响与患者的互动，如果是，如何影响？这项研究的结果将通过在巴布亚新几内亚和其他地方提出性别和文化变化的理论来解决科学和医学培训在社会变革过程中的作用问题，从而增进文化人类学和相关学科的知识。通过将卫生的政治经济学与专业实践联系起来，这项研究将提高人们对卫生保健系统如何与他们所服务的人群的道德和文化价值观相互作用的认识。在发展中国家的许多地方，护士是管理妇女健康问题的一线工作人员，因此这项研究的结果将与性别角色正在迅速变化的其他国家有关。该项目支持培训一名社会科学家。

New York University doctoral student Barbara A. Andersen, supervised by Dr. Rayna Rapp, will investigate the local implementation and cultural mediation of western professional standards in non-western situations. The focus of the resarch will be nursing education. The research will be carried out as an ethnographic study in the provincial town of Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. The researcher will employ of mix of social science methodologies, including participant-observation, life history interviews and analysis of discourse practices in educational and clinical settings. The investigator's focal research questions are: 1) How do nurses learn to engage with the universal categories of biomedicine and the local context of changing gender relations? 2) How does the classification of nursing as "women's work" affect nurses' scientific and ethical frameworks? 3) Does the gendering of nursing affect interactions with patients in clinical settings, and if so, how?Findings from this research will advance knowledge in cultural anthropology and allied disciplines by bringing theories of gender and cultural change, in Papua New Guinea and elsewhere, to bear on questions about the role of scientific and medical training in processes of social transformation. By linking the political economy of health to professional practices, this research will enhance knowledge of how health care systems interact with the moral and cultural values of the populations they serve. Nurses are front-line workers managing women's health concerns in many parts of the developing world, so the results of this research will be relevant to other countries in which gender roles are changing rapidly. This project supports the training of a social scientist.