Beschreibung:
Nursing Theory, Postmodernism, Post-structuralism and Foucault critiques mainstream American nursing theory and its use of post-structural theory, comparing and contrasting how postmodern and post-structural ideas have been used fruitfully in nursing research and theorizing elsewhere.
1.Early 21st Century Canadian Nursing at a Theoretical Crossroads: Between American Nursing Theory and British-Australian Post-Structural Theorizing. 2.Establishing the Field of Study: Postmodern, Post-Structural, and Foucauldian Nursing Scholarship. 3.American Nursing Science and Discipline-Specific Theory: In the Grips of Logical Positivism. 4.Postmodern and Post-Structural Ideas in American Nursing Texts I: Gortner, Dzurec, Reed, Watson, and Nursing Science Quarterly. 5.Postmodern and Post-Structural Ideas in American Nursing Texts II: Advances in Nursing Science and the Enclave Group. 6.Postmodern and Post-Structural Ideas in Non-American Nursing Literature: Examining Nurse-Patient Relationships and the Holistic Nurse. 7.It's Not About Being Comfortable Bedfellows: Why Postmodern and Post-Structural Literacy Matters in Nursing. Appendix.