Citation

Lynam MJ, Browne AJ, Reimer Kirkham S, Anderson JM. Nurs. Inq. 2007; 14(1): 23-34.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1440-1800.2007.00348.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In this paper we continue an ongoing dialogue that has as its goal the critical appraisal of theoretical perspectives on culture and health, in an effort to move forward scholarship on culture and health. We draw upon a programme of scholarship to explicate theoretical tensions and challenges that are manifest in the discourses on culture and health and to explore the possibilities Bourdieu's theoretical perspective offers for reconciling them. That is, we hope to demonstrate the need to move beyond descriptions ‘of’ culture to an understanding of cultures as dynamic, and to show ways cultural practices create contexts that have the potential to foster or impede health.