The panopticon re-visited?: An exploration of the social and political dimensions of contemporary health care and nursing practice

Cheek, Julianne; Rudge, Trudy

doi:10.1016/s0020-7489(94)90068-x

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“…In what follows, we highlight two emergent discourses that are potentially particularly 'rural' as they resonate with previously identified discourses of rural othering and authenticity (Pitkanen et al, 2014;Cassidy and McGrath, 2015;Scott and Hogg, 2015). We consider the implications of these for community participation and how discourses that have acceptance as 'truth' discourses (Cheek and Rudge, 1994), are used by participants to frame whose input into informing future health service developments is legitimate and whose is not.…”

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confidence: 89%

Prioritising rural authenticity: Community members' use of discourse in rural healthcare participation and why it matters

Nimegeer

Farmer

2016

Journal of Rural Studies

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This paper uses discourse analysis to explore individuals' use of two discourses in Scottish rural health community participation. It explores interview texts from a community participation project to design new services. Findings show that some community members employ discourses of rural localness and tradition to augment their credibility and gain influence. In particular, community members employ discourses that prioritise the voices of those perceived as local, and when discussing doctors and nurses, prioritise those who display idealised characteristics associated with local traditional provision. In examining these prominent discourses, the paper suggests that community participation involves more complex power-plays than simply those between health service managers and the public, that tend to be portrayed in health policy. Power-play between community members could affect processes and outcomes of community participation.

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Section: Data Within the Context Of The Participation Projectmentioning

confidence: 89%

Prioritising rural authenticity: Community members' use of discourse in rural healthcare participation and why it matters

Nimegeer

Farmer

2016

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…Because this approach stresses that a number of competing discourses are operating at any one time and these discourses vary in their authority, they offer potentially contradictory ways of giving meaning to the world. 16 For example, the biomedical discourse dominates the healthcare system in Taiwan, despite TCM being a well-established system of healthcare integrated into the daily lives of the Taiwanese. 17 At present, biomedical discourse is the dominant discourse as a product of social, political, historical, and other structural influences.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…18 Through discourse analysis, we can explore the way in which power and knowledge are shaped by various groups of experts within a society. 16 For most analysts, this counterhegemonic process of deconstruction of taken-for-granted phenomena allows an otherwise covert operation of power in society to be exposed, for example, ''that of professionals over patients or of one professional group over another.'' 14(pp62,63) In this study, we identify competing discourses related to chemotherapy toxicity.…”

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The Social Construction of Cancer Chemotherapy Toxicity

Chen

Allan

2013

Cancer Nursing

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“…The power of the medical actor over the patient has been analyzed as an instrumental coercion of the patient throughout the life-course, from prenatal development to maturation to death (Hick, 1999;Goldstein, 2003;Harley, 1994;Willems, 2000). Coordinated with power over patients is the discourse of "expertise" which operates to justify this exercise of power (Rawlinson, 1987;Candlin & Candlin, 2002;Cheek & Rudge, 1994). Although reference is made to discourse, the materiality of power over patients is central to these analyses.…”

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Care of the Self and American Physicians' Place in the "War on Terror": A Foucauldian Reading of Senator Bill Frist, M.D.

Bates

2006

NJMP

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American physicians are increasingly concerned that they are losing professional control. Other analysts of medical power argue that physicians have too much power. This essay argues that current analyses are grounded in a structuralist reading of power. Deploying Michel Foucault's "care of the self" and rhetorician Raymie McKerrow's "critical rhetoric," this essay claims that medical power is better understood as a way that medical actors take on power through rhetoric rather than a force that has power over medical actors. Through a close reading of an essay by Senator Bill Frist, this paper argues that physicians experience a process of "subjection" wherein they are both agents of and objects of medical power as it is combined with state and corporate power in the American "war on terror." This alternative mode of analyzing medical power has implications for our collective understanding of its operations and the means by which we propose alternative enactments of medical power.

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The panopticon re-visited?: An exploration of the social and political dimensions of contemporary health care and nursing practice

Cited by 54 publications

References 2 publications

Prioritising rural authenticity: Community members' use of discourse in rural healthcare participation and why it matters

Prioritising rural authenticity: Community members' use of discourse in rural healthcare participation and why it matters

The Social Construction of Cancer Chemotherapy Toxicity

Care of the Self and American Physicians' Place in the "War on Terror": A Foucauldian Reading of Senator Bill Frist, M.D.

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