Goopy Suzanne
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia.
Nurs Inq. 2006 Jun;13(2):110-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2006.00313.x.
In this article, the importance of ritual as a collective response to death is discussed. A case example, taken from a larger ethnographic study, is used to explore the responses and reactions of a group of Italian nurses to death as it occurs within an intensive care unit in Rome, Italy. The material presented is used to analyse the significance that cultural, religious and social beliefs and quasi-beliefs can have in nursing practice. The issues highlighted in this examination of the place of ritual in death are located and discussed within their highly specific cultural context and suggest that, where emphasis remains on nurses as a collective rather than on the individual nurse, ritual acts to ensure that social and moral order prevails.
在本文中，我们讨论了仪式作为对死亡的集体回应的重要性。本文从一项规模更大的人种学研究中选取了一个案例，用以探究一群意大利护士对发生在意大利罗马一家重症监护病房内的死亡事件的反应。所呈现的材料用于分析文化、宗教及社会信仰和准信仰在护理实践中可能具有的意义。在对死亡仪式场所的考察中所凸显的问题，是在其高度特定的文化背景中加以定位和讨论的，这表明，当重点仍然放在护士群体而非个体护士身上时，仪式有助于确保社会和道德秩序得以维系。
