Research, Truth and Authority Postmodern Perspectives on Nursing

Name: Research, Truth and Authority Postmodern Perspectives on Nursing
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ISBN: 9780333914786

ISBN-10: 0333914783

ISBN-13: 9780333914786

Edition: 2000

Authors: Gary Rolfe

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Postmodernism has been one of the most influential social and philosophical movements of the past decade. This book introduces the work of the key thinkers such as Derrida, and applies this understanding to postmodernist nursing and midwifery research.

Book details

List price: $135.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 4/13/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 1.00" wide x 1.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Notes on the contributors


Back to the bedpans



Modernism: the rise of empirical research



Postmodernism: the challenge to empirical research



Beyond relativism: making choices in a decentred universe



Postmodern research and the narrative tradition


Nursing, narrativity and research: towards a poetics and politics of orality




Postmodern research and reflective writing


Writing ourselves: creating knowledge in a postmodern world




Postmodern research and the 'new' science


Imagining the future for nursing administration and systems research




Postmodern research and emancipatory feminism


Postmodern feminist emancipatory research: is it an oxymoron?




Postmodern research and the ironist nurse researcher


The impact of postmodernism on research methodology: implications for nursing



Epilogue: Project 2001: nursing in the third millennium


Bibliography


Name Index


Subject Index