Nursing Theory, Postmodernism, Post-Structuralism, and Foucault

ISBN-13: 9781032047287 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 208 str.

Olga Petrovskaya

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1.Early 21^st 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.

O autorze

Olga Petrovskaya is an assistant professor in the University of Victoria School of Nursing in British Columbia, Canada. She is an active and long-standing member of the International Philosophy of Nursing Society (IPONS), and in 2021 she was elected to serve as the vice chair of IPONS. Dr. Petrovskaya is interested in continental philosophy especially German critical theory and French post-structuralism as well as a contemporary direction in social theory called practice theory. In 2014 she won first prize in the Nursing Philosophy journal Graduate Student Writing Contest for her article, "Is There Nursing Phenomenology after Paley?" Dr. Petrovskaya’s funded program of research combines her interest in eHealth and Health Information and Communication Technology with her interest in theoretical perspectives attuned to the socio-materiality of health care practices, for example, actor network theory. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on nursing knowledge and theory development.