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[Care and difference: from integration to fragmentation of being]
1Faculdade de Educação, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.
This paper re-examines nursing care, challenging universal assumptions. It argues that understanding care through the lens of difference reveals its inherently political nature in contemporary practice.
Area of Science:
- Nursing Theory
- Social Sciences
- Philosophy of Care
Context:
- Contemporary nursing practice
- Post-structuralist critical theory
- Cultural Studies and Gender theories
Purpose:
- To problematize the knowing/doing dimensions of nursing
- To analyze constitutive aspects of current care theories
- To theorize care from the perspective of difference
Summary:
- Critically examines contemporary nursing care theories using Cultural Studies and Gender theories.
- Challenges universal humanitarian, scientific, and philosophical assumptions underpinning care.
- Proposes that theorizing and exercising care must acknowledge its fundamentally political nature.
Impact:
- Shifts the understanding of nursing care towards a more political and difference-informed perspective.
- Encourages a re-evaluation of care's theoretical and practical foundations.
- Contributes to critical discourse in nursing theory and practice.
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