Another version of this paper was published in Transcultural Nursing: A Futuristic Field of Health Care, Michael Carter, (Ed.), Memphis: The Transcultural Nursing Society, 1986. Would like to thank Mary Sweeney, R.N., M.N. who suggested this topic to me, arranged for me to observe her operating room and provided comments on an earlier draft, and Madeleine Leininger and anonymous reviewers for the Journal of Transcultural Nursing for their helpful revision suggestions. Variations of this paper have been presented at the Annual Meeting of the Transcultural Nursing Society and the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in 1985.
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