1. Introduction: Enlightenment, rationality and colonisation -- 2. Sawing off the branch and sitting: the context of the postmodern -- 3. Erasing the boundaries: speech into text, comment into text -- 4. Locating nursing within the discourses of the Enlightenment -- 5. The origins of the texts: management interviews and nursing questionnaires -- 6. The interviews part I: discourses of rationality -- 7. The interviews part II: subjects and objects, autonomy and tradition -- 8. Morality and self-sacrifice: the nurses' comments -- 9. Beyond oppression and profession
Notes
"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso
