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| Author |
Neehoff, S.M. |
Title  |
The invisible bodies of nursing |
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| Year |
2005 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
University of Otago Library |
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| Keywords |
Nursing philosophy |
| Abstract |
In this thesis, the author explores what she terms 'invisible bodies of nursing', which are the physical body of the nurse, the body of practice, and the body of knowledge. She argues that the physical body of the nurse is absent in most nursing literature. Her contention is that the physical body of the nurse is invisible because it is tacit and much nursing practice is invisible because it is perceived by many nurses to be inarticulable and is carried out within a private discourse of nursing, silently and secretly. Nursing knowledge is invisible because it is not seen as being valid or authoritative or sanctioned as a legitimate discourse by the dominant discourse. This analysis is informed by Luce Irigaray's philosophy of the feminine, Michel Foucault's genealogical approach to analysing, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. The author discusses strategies that nurses could use to make themselves more 'visible' in healthcare structures. |
| Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1124 |
Serial |
1109 |
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| Author |
Miles, M.A.P. |
| Title |
Why they leave: a Heideggerian hermeneutic study of the reasons why ten registered nurses left nursing practice to enter the professions of medicine or law |
Type |
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| Year |
1997 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
University of Otago Library, Bill Robertson Library |
| Volume |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Abstract |
The purpose of the study was to research the reasons for the dissatisfaction experienced by ten professional nurse-practitioners who chose to leave nursing to join the professions of law or medicine. The mnotivation for professional nurses to chose entry to these particular professions may in some way throw light upon the difficulties being experienced in attempts to bring about changes of an emancipatory nature in the nursing profession (Habermas, 1974). The approach for the study is hermeneutic phenomenology (Gadamer, 1975 – ; Heidegger, 1962) |
| Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 148 |
Serial |
148 |
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