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Midnight reckonings: on a question of knowledge and nursing
Author(s) -
Ceci Christine
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
nursing philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.367
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1466-769X
pISSN - 1466-7681
DOI - 10.1046/j.1466-769x.2003.00109.x
Subject(s) - enlightenment , hermeneutics , constitution , reading (process) , frame (networking) , power (physics) , sociology , michel foucault , epistemology , feminism , biopower , philosophy , gender studies , law , linguistics , politics , political science , telecommunications , physics , quantum mechanics , computer science
The paper contrasts understandings of knowledge grounded in Enlightenment norms with the departures from those norms taken by some strands of feminism and hermeneutics, as well as the contributions made by the writing of Michel Foucault. A reading of Foucault's writings on knowledge, power and the discursive constitution of self and world is offered as a potentially useful frame within which to raise questions about nursing, nurses and knowledge.