PMID: 9437959Jan 23, 1998Paper

Reading nursing history

Nursing Inquiry
Sioban Nelson

Abstract

This paper undertakes a reading of nursing history as a constituent discourse. The discursive power of history, with its active mining of the archives of the past to construct a narrative of contemporary force and power, is emphasized. The essay begins with the nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century professional histories that celebrated nursing's evolutionary achievements. It then moves to the sociologically influenced revisions of the 1960s, and the feminist and critical revisions of the 1980s and 1990s. We then turn to recent scholarship and examine the call for nursing history to participate in the theoretical construction of the discipline of nursing. The observation is made that, in the name of relevance, contemporary nursing history appears to be expected to contribute to the development of nursing knowledge, just as early histories contributed to the professionalization of nursing. The teleological assumptions of both nursing history and nursing theory are then argued to set the limits of nursing discourse, with detrimental effect on scholarship.

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Citations

Feb 15, 2002·Nursing Inquiry·B Quested, T Rudge
Dec 3, 2003·Holistic Nursing Practice·Barbra Mann Wall, Sioban Nelson
Aug 14, 2012·Nursing Inquiry·Margalida MiróGloria Gallego
Jun 17, 2009·Nursing Philosophy : an International Journal for Healthcare Professionals·Sheryl Reimer-KirkhamHeather McDonald
Nov 19, 2010·Journal of Clinical Nursing·Ann Bradshaw
Aug 29, 2013·Journal of Advanced Nursing·Margalida Miró-BonetConcha Zaforteza-Lallemand
Apr 18, 2014·Nursing Philosophy : an International Journal for Healthcare Professionals·Kirsten BeedholmKirsten Frederiksen
Nov 23, 2012·Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences·Anne LukanaLeino-Kilpi Helena
Apr 18, 2014·Nursing Inquiry·Guadalupe Manzano-García, Juan-Carlos Ayala-Calvo
Nov 2, 2011·Nursing Inquiry·Ann E Bradshaw
Feb 17, 2009·ANS. Advances in Nursing Science·Elaine Sorensen Marshall

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