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Medical science, nursing, and the future
1School of English, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia. J.Wiltshire@latrobe.edu.au
Nursing Inquiry
|January 29, 1999
Abstract:
Drawing on the work of Evelyn Fox Keller, this paper examines the notion of 'objectivism' and suggests that medicine as a science is premised upon the denial of common mortality. Alternative models for medicine are then examined, including the 'romantic science' of Oliver Sacks, and the paper concludes with a brief discussion of nursing as a key concept in the articulation of a more comprehensive medicine of the future.