Examining the historical context of healthcare whilst focusing on building a more just, equitable world, this book proposes a radical imagination for nursing and presents possibilities for speculative futures embracing queer, feminist, posthuman, and abolitionist frames.

Introduction. Part I: Towards a Re/Visioned History for Nursing. 1.Alleviating the Suffering of Others: Nursing and Humanitarian Reason Under Neoliberalism. 2.Finding CASSANDRA: Mythology, Hagiography, Historiography for Nursing. 3.Madeleine Knows Best: Culture, Race, and Whiteness in the Discipline of Nursing. Part II: A Critical Understanding of the Present. 4.For Whom Does the Alarm Bell Toll? On Nursing Identity and Revolution. 5.Imagining afFIRMative Futures for Nursing. 6.Hypervisible Nurses in the Covidicene: Reclaiming the Scripts of Personhood and Agency. 7.Metastatic Growth: The Healthcare Industry's Increasing Contribution to the Plasticene. Part III: A Radical Imagination for Nursing. 8.'Settler Harm Reduction' in Nursing Education: Generativity not Hierarchy. 9.Using Arts-Based Participatory Methods to Teach Cultural Safety. 10a.Artificial Intelligence for Health and Care is Not Inevitable: Introduction and Critical Vocabulary. 10b.Artificial Intelligence for Health and Care is Not Inevitable: Ten Commitments to New Futures. Part IV: Getting There: Speculative Paths for the Present/Future. 11.Horizons: Shifting the Gaze and Topography of Nursing Education. 12.Open Nursing Science: Using Citizen Science to Make Nursing Knowledge Wide-Open. 13.Posthuman Pedagogy: Metamorphosing Nursing Education for a Dying Planet. 14.#AbolishNursing: An Ethics for Creating Safer Realities. Epilogue