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Haitian vodou as a health care system: between magic, religion, and medicine.

• Nicolas Vonarx
• Alternative therapies in health and medicine
• 2011

Haitian vodou has been considered an African-American religion organized around a pantheon, sanctuaries, priests, fraternities, and rituals honoring the spirits (lwa), the dead, and the ancestors.… (More)

[Culture and nursing care, from a biomedical to an anthropological approach].

• Nicolas Vonarx
• Soins; la revue de reference infirmiere
• 2010

Nursing training and practice have for a long time taken a biomedical approach to disease and the body, which fails to guarantee treatment which takes into account the differences of each patient.… (More)

[The body in nursing discipline: an essential to link the four concepts of the metaparadigm]

• Nicolas Vonarx
• Recherche en soins infirmiers
• 2016

How can we teach and practice nursing, develop knowledge and reflect on the founding principles of nursing discipline without explicitly considering the essential place of the body ? After addressing… (More)

[Dying well seen in the light of self-transcendence and transition : two theories of care helpful to nurses].

• Pauline Laporte, Nicolas Vonarx
• Recherche en soins infirmiers
• 2016

Accompanying a dying person up to and at the actual moment of death is a duty that often leaves carers at a loss. We shall show how far theoretical nursing knowledge can help practitioners who… (More)

Cancer patients and spiritual experiences: redefining the self through initiatory ordeals.

• Nicolas Vonarx
• Palliative & supportive care
• 2015

OBJECTIVES When one explores the paths that sick people follow in search of meaning and a cure, one is quite likely to encounter religious knowledge and practices. Examining this facet and the… (More)

[Masculinity and HIV-AIDS prevention in West Africa: a training model].

• Nicolas Vonarx
• Promotion & education
• 2008

Résumé: Les liens qui existent entre l’identité masculine et l’épidémie du VIH sont de plus en plus reconnus. Qu’il s’agisse d’une identité de genre qui s’exprime à travers une multiplication des… (More)

[Restoring the complexity of reality in theoretical health promotion approaches through incorporating the identity of the subject].

• Valérie Desgroseilliers, Nicolas Vonarx
• Sante publique
• 2014

The theoretical frameworks presently dominating health promotion practices mainly focus on the individual's psychosocial and cognitive components. When focusing on environments, these frameworks… (More)

[Encountering the subject in the health field: a human care theory based on lived experience].

• Nicolas Vonarx, Valérie Desgroseilliers
• Recherche en soins infirmiers
• 2013

Dominated by a bio-mechanistic paradigm, Western health systems are suffering from numerous problems. One such problem is the lack of consideration for lived experiences and the complexity and depth… (More)

Religion, spirituality, and cancer: the question of individual empowerment.

• Nicolas Vonarx, Shelley-Rose Hyppolite
• Integrative cancer therapies
• 2013

It has often been noted that people with a severe illness endeavor to deepen their religious and spiritual practice and knowledge. It is generally accepted that spiritual and religious factors help… (More)

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