Philosophy of Science for Nursing Practice

Dahnke, Michael D.; Dreher, H. Michael

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“…The science, which has as role the affirmation and construction of knowledge, as, for instance, the care given for the nursing in the Policy of the transsexualizer Process, but it does not do well, since the non-use of the common sense in the construction of the knowledge. 32 It´s necessary the inclusion of the common sense of the transsexual women by the science, so that the same is able to offer subsidies for the mastery of the nursing practice to users.…”

Section: Science and Common Sense: Interfaces In The Assistance To Thmentioning

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The epistemological construction of transsexuality: the science, nursing and common sense

Janini

Santos

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Esc. Anna Nery

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Objective: To know the common sense of transsexual women in reaction to the transsexual process and to discuss the epistemological construction about the transsexuality and nursing in this process. Method: Qualitative research, carried out between May and June 2017, with 90 transsexual women attending a specialized center. Results: The common sense of the interviewees evidenced the transsexuality as an identity issue and not a disease, barriers to attendance in health demands and absence of the nursing professional. Discussion: The epistemological construction of the transsexuality takes place through science, which instrumentalized the Transsexual Process Policy and does not have the knowledge presented by the common sense of the users. Conclusion and implications for nursing practice: Science has a role to create order and practices from the refinement of common sense, but does not use the common sense of transsexual women in the epistemological construction of transsexuality, which compromises care and reinforces stereotyped and pathological character by health professionals. Science has the power to validate common sense, sedimenting the care to transsexual women, especially nursing practice. Nursing has the challenge of understanding issues related to transsexuality by articulating common sense with scientific knowledge.

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Section: Science and Common Sense: Interfaces In The Assistance To Thmentioning

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The epistemological construction of transsexuality: the science, nursing and common sense

Janini

Santos

Santos³

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Esc. Anna Nery

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“…This notion of mind/body dualism (Cartesian dualism) has had a significant impact on concepts of care and spirituality in modern nursing. It can be seen reflected in the work of Rogers, Parse, and Watson, where the human spirit is constructed as essentially different from the physical human form (although construed to reside within it), and becomes the focus for nursing care (Garrett, 2013; Dahnke & Dreher, ). However, this belief has become challenged by modern neuroscience, which now suggests no such division actually exists (Dehaene & Naccache, ; Dehaene, ; Rees et al ., ).…”

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New sophistry: self‐deception in the nursing academy

Garrett

2016

Nursing Philosophy

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In this essay, I advance an argument against the expansion and acceptance of postmodern metaphysical antirealist ideologies in the development of nursing theory in North America. I suggest mystical theoretical explanations of care, the rejection of empirical epistemology, and a return to divinity in nursing represent an intellectual dead end, as these ideas do little to help resolve real-world health issues and also negate the need for the academic discrimination of bad ideas. I examine some of the philosophical foundations of nursing theory and deconstruct some of the more preternatural theories that have become established as the dominant conventional wisdom in the academy. It is argued that this can be characterized as a form of self-deception, and overall has had a negative impact on advancement of the nursing profession and public health care. Reasons behind the widespread acceptance of these irrational theoretical stances in nursing and the ongoing support for mystical therapeutic interventions are explored.

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“…Jürgen Habermas's theory of communicative action has long been an object of considerable interest of scholars from various disciplines and fields (Heath, ; Hedrick, ; Mangion, ). This theory acquires a special relevance in contemporary therapeutic practice, because therapy today is more than ever before determined by the aggravating conflict between what Habermas referred to as the system and the lifeworld ( Lebenswelt ), that is between instrumental rationality and the mode of thinking which is rooted in aesthetic and moral emotionality (Dahnke & Dreher, ; Meleis, ). For this reason, while not neglecting the technical interest, participants in the therapeutic process must not ignore the practical and emancipatory interests, for such a negligence would eradicate mutual understanding, which is the fundamental condition of therapy (Duffy, , pp.…”

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Habermas and the therapeutic function of language

2019

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The aim of this article was to interpret Habermas's concept of language in terms of its therapeutic potential which can be effectively realized in nursing practice. Drawing on Habermas's definition, we analyse the components of rational communication which are necessary for the patient and the therapist to achieve understanding. In doing this, we examine not only lifeworld, system and validity claims, which are well‐known notions within Habermas's theory of communicative action, but also less frequently studied elements of this theory, such as everyday world, to which the patient refers in the process of self‐understanding and identity construction. We also address culture and language as a pre‐rational factor which can disturb, or even preclude, communication and understanding. In such circumstances, we propose supplementing the Habermasian therapeutic project with a psychoanalytical interpretations of the utterances of the patients who have difficulty defining the situation within which therapy is possible.

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Philosophy of Science for Nursing Practice

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The epistemological construction of transsexuality: the science, nursing and common sense

The epistemological construction of transsexuality: the science, nursing and common sense

New sophistry: self‐deception in the nursing academy

Habermas and the therapeutic function of language

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