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The non‐existence of non‐compliant families: the influence of Humberto Maturana *
Author(s) -
Wright Lorraine M,
Marie Anne
Publication year - 1992
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 - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1992.tb02018.x
Subject(s) - impossibility , epistemology , objectivity (philosophy) , determinism , cognition , psychology , compliance (psychology) , social psychology , philosophy , neuroscience , political science , law
Non‐compliance is not only an epistemological error but a biological impossibility This profound statement arises from the influence of Humberto Maturana's revolutionary meta‐theory of cognition The definitions and significant implications of two major theoretical concepts of this meta‐theory of cognition, namely structural determinism and objectivity‐in‐parenthesis, are discussed These radical concepts challenge the approved North American Nursing Diagnostic Association's nursing diagnosis of non‐compliance Maturana's theory reveals the impossibility of instructive interaction, leading the authors to conclude the non‐existence of non‐compliant families