| Description |
xii, 244 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Sociology and nursing practice series |
|
Sociology and nursing practice series.
|
| Contents |
10 Postmodernism and Foucault -- Modernism -- Postmodernism -- Foucault and knowledge -- Nursing example : nursing as textually mediated discourse -- Foucault and power -- Nursing example : the surveillance of health visitors |
|
2 Structural functionalism and role theory -- The Hobbesian problem of order -- Durkheim and social solidarity -- Anomic suicide -- The pertinence of Durkehim to nursing -- Parons' structural functionalism -- The pattern variables of the medical role -- Nursing example : gender professional roles -- The sick role -- Nursing example : the unpopular patient -- Assessing Parsons' role theory |
|
3 Marxism and the political economy of health -- Karl Marx -- Historical materialism -- Marxist explanations of ill health -- Exploitation and illness -- Capitalism and health care -- Making profits from illness -- Nursing example : Marxism and informal care |
|
4 Weber and professional closure -- Class, status and party -- Education and social closure -- The social closure of professions -- Dual closure strategies -- Gender and professions -- Nursing example : registration and dual closure -- Nursing example: the limits of social disclosure -- The Marxist reposte |
|
5 Symbolic interactionalism, labelling and stigma -- George Herbert Mead's social psychology -- Herbert Blumer's definition -- Labelling theory -- Mental illness as labelled deviance -- Total institutions -- Stigma -- Nursing example : nurses' power in interactions with patients |
|
6 Phenomenology and ethnomethodology -- Husserl and phenomenology -- Weber and Verstehen -- Schutz and phenonmenological sociology -- Nursing example : the phenomenology of comfort -- Ethnomethodology -- Nursing example : the enthnomethodology of home visiting |
|
7 Critical theory of communicative action -- The roots of critical theory -- The Frankfurt school -- The influence of phenomenology -- Habermas on rationality -- The purposive rationality of medicine -- Nursing example : new nursing as communicative action |
|
8 Structuration theory and critical realism -- Giddens' critiques of interpretative and structural theories -- Structuration theory -- Nursing example : the intrusion of the social -- Archer's critique of structuration theory -- Bhaskar and critical realism -- Nursing example : racism and professionalism |
|
9 Feminisms, caring and women's knowledge -- The development of feminist approaches -- Cultural feminism -- The ethic of care -- Nursing example : women and AIDS -- Feminist epistemology -- Standpoint feminism -- Nursing example : nursing knowledge, women's knowledge -- The significance of accepting difference |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p230-239. _ Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Nursing theory
|
|
Nursing -- Practice.
|
|
Nursing -- Social aspects.
|
|
Nursing -- Philosophy.
|
|
Social medicine.
|
|
Social sciences -- Philosophy.
|
|
Sociology -- Research.
|
|
Nursing.
|
|
Sociology.
|
|
Nursing Theory.
|
|
Nursing Process.
|
|
Sociology.
|
|
Nursing Theory.
|
|
Nursing.
|
|
Social Medicine.
|
| ISBN |
0333691970 |
|
0333693299 (Series) |
|
