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Description
Postmodernism has been one of the most influential social and philosophical movements of the past decade, but it has also been one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented. In the first part of this book, Gary Rolfe offers a clear and concise introduction to modernist and postmodernist thought, drawing on the work of key thinkers such as Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault and Barthes. In part two, he applies this understanding of postmodernism to a number of published works on postmodernist nursing and midwifery research, exploring themes of power, truth and authority in the discourse of nursing.
Table of Contents
PART 1: TAKING THE POSTMODERN TURN
Modernism: The Rise of Empirical Research
Postmodernism: The Challenge of Empirical Research
Beyond Postmodernism: Making Choices in a Decentred Universe
PART 2: POSTMODERN PERSPECTIVES ON NURSING RESEARCH
Nursing, Narrativity and Research: Towards a Poetics and Politics of Orality; K.Walker
Writing Ourselves: Creating Knowledge in a Postmodern World; G.Rolfe
Imagining the Future for Nursing Administration and Systems Research; J.E. Goetz Koerner
Postmodern Feminist Emancipatory Research: Is it an Oxymoron?; K. Fahy
The Impact of Postmodernism on Research Methodology: Implications for Nursing; C.Parsons
EPILOGUE: Project 2001 Nursing in the Third Millennium.
Product details
Published | 13 Apr 2000 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 240 |
ISBN | 9780333914786 |
Imprint | Red Globe Press |
Dimensions | Not specified |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |