Volume 5, Issue Part 2, 2010
Selected Essays from North America Part 2
Mark A. Hector, Judith E. Hector
Pages 161-174
Walt Whitman, Nursing, and Phenomenology
Each age has its sick and wounded and those who provide them nursing care. This paper links together “The Wound Dresser,” a poem by the Civil War nurse Walt Whitman, a musical composition by John Adams that is based on the poem, and a book on nursing research and practice. The poem, the musical composition, and the book are described and related from the perspective of phenomenology.