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Learning disability nursing: from normalization to materialism — towards a new paradigm
Author(s) -
Gilbert Tony
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1993.18101604.x
Subject(s) - normalization (sociology) , psychology , materialism , paradigm shift , nursing , medicine , sociology , epistemology , philosophy , social science
For almost 2 decades the ‘normalization principle’ has provided the dominant paradigm for the planning and evaluation of nursing services to people with a learning disability within the United Kingdom This has reflected the international influence of this philosophy in services to a wide range of disadvantaged and marginalized groups However, this paper will argue that nurses working with this client group are facing a range of social and political changes which expose the weaknesses in this paradigm This calls for a new approach to the way the relationship between practitioners and their clients is conceptualized Here it is argued that a materialist paradigm provides a more realistic framework upon which to base future nursing practice