postmodernism

..The essence of the article is there are grounds for reasonable understanding, even though it cannot be absolute in the hermeneutic...

..Ultimately, the postmodern ironist reader of the research report must make a judgement without criteria, based on her own practical wisdom or 'prudence'...

..CONCLUSION: The information gathered from this studyprovides a rich understanding of the nurses' educational practices with new mothers...

..The results showed that nursing scholars prefer approaches to discourse that resemble mainstream qualitative research avoiding social life and interaction. Explanations for these findings are briefly outlined...

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..Most importantly, we reject Griffiths' accusation that postmodernism is a strategy to 'save us from thinking' and instead, with Lyotard, advocate it as an attempt 'to save the ..

..of alternative ways of thinking about ethnicity, which have emerged from more recent social anthropology and postmodernism. It addresses the question of how to therorise ethnicity in a way that does not entail its reification as a ..

..A number of other approaches and theories are summarised and offered as examples to student nurses for their consideration...

..We entertain the alternative idea that insight is a quality of perception that mental health practitioners can cultivate, to more deeply understand their work, culture and the self...

..I also suggest that Gadow's brand of postmodernism echoes Romanticism, whose defining characteristic was an insistent contrast between poetry and science...

..Following the crowd, nursing has jumped onto this trend's bandwagon. Although some scholars and clinicians have tried to expand these notions, few have considered a deconstructive approach to do so...

..I conclude with the observation that EBP is open to many of the criticisms that it directs at other discourses, including problems of a lack of empirical evidence, of distortions due to memory, and of falsification of the 'facts'...

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..If tensions experienced in the transition as discursively generated are understood, previously unthought of ways preparing and introducing nurses to the work place may ensue...

..This paper supports the current definition of the ANA (2003) within the domains of the art, science, and practice of nursing...

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..Nurses, nurse managers and researchers should question the assumptions of dominant economic models and explore a range of economic frameworks when planning services and evaluating their practice...

..Overall, self-characterizations indicated caregivers had internalized stereotypical female gender traits that support and facilitate the enduring of burden...

..The author reviews contemporary approaches to nursing education in Japan and discusses the strategies for implementing Narrative Pedagogy into the nursing education environment...

..They feel strengthened by the cohesion of a group with a flattened hierarchy and, within limits, able to challenge existing policy and practice...

..From this basis, specific ways in which nurses and supportive stakeholders could move the implementation of cognitive behavioural psychotherapy agenda forward within a postmodern leadership context will be proposed...

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..We argue that in order to move beyond the 'utility' discussion, an interrogation of the knowledge claims of both nursing and sociology is required...

..Lack of knowledge is seen to underlie an array of professional problems. Little is known of how nurses themselves understand what it means to practise knowledgeably...

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..Judgements regarding the validity of any intervention that is coercive must include reference to the psychopolitical dimensions of both practice and policy...

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..By conducting formal layered analyses, researchers can expand and extend both what is said about, and interpreted through, photographs...

..b>Postmodernism, particularly drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, focuses on a fluid conception of power while also ..

b>Postmodernism is a philosophical and social movement which stresses that ideas are temporary, research data should be considered only in context, reality is transcendent, grand theories are invalid, problems are deconstructed, and ..

..This paper examines the evidence-based practice movement, the hierarchy of evidence and the relationship between evidence-based practice and reflective practice...

..Our aim in this paper is to explain a methodological/methods package devised to incorporate situational and social world mapping with frame analysis, based on a grounded theory study of Australian rural nurses' experiences of mentoring...

..Biley and Kirstin Fragemann, who share their respective visions and understanding of each country's vision of nursing, healthcare, and quality of life in the year 2050...

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..I do not presume to prove or disprove anything, rather I avail myself of Nietzsche's unique insight into the human condition as a rubric from which to illuminate something of the nature of human health...

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..While modernism stresses the present change versus the static past, postmodernism denies the past ever being static and hypostatises fluidity and change as permanent condition...

..concepts, which are not mutually exclusive: critical cultural theory, feminism, colonialism, Orientalism, postmodernism, poststructuralism, queer theory, and semiotics...

..agrees with four major philosophical thoughts in nursing, including postempiricism, pragmatism, feminism, and postmodernism. Based on the discussion, we propose that fuzzy logic be further explored, used and developed in research and ..

..Second, four contemporary movements in psychoanalysis are enumerated (postmodernism, spontaneity, pluralism, and integrationism), with commentary on these movements' likely impact on the current ..

..Despite that, postmodernism generally, and literary postmodernism in particular, can be said to lack a theory of the psychological and ..

..the Scylla of absolutism (imperialism, colonialism, hegemony) on the one hand and the Charybdis of relativism (postmodernism, fragmentation, Balkanization) on the other...

..Feminist epistemologies, such as feminist empiricism, standpoint theory, and postmodernism, recognize women's lived experiences as legitimate sources of knowledge...

..has been published in recent years, the actual conduct of a therapy session derived from the premises of postmodernism remains unclear. We investigated how a postmodern therapist manages talk in an actual session...

..insights into nursing theory and practice, Marks-Maran unfortunately presents a very idiosyncratic version of postmodernism which is both simplistic and, at times; inaccurate...

..What is required is for pluralistic psychoanalytic institutions to empower analysts who are actively involved in the pursuit of new ideas and theories in psychoanalysis...

..Reasons for its limitations are discussed. The present article brings to bear relevant concepts drawn from postmodernism and complexity theory on ideas about how change occurs in psychoanalysis...

..The subjectivist turn that introduced postmodernism into the systemic model has enriched it with important theoretical and practical elements, such as the ..

Psychology assumes defensible notions of human subjectivity and understanding. Yet, some versions of postmodernism, including some of those currently influential within psychology, eschew the possibility of the kind of understanding-..

..b>Postmodernism, curiously, has begun to open up something of a route back...

A global or universal code of medical ethics seems paradoxical in the era of pluralism and postmodernism. A different conception of globalisation will be developed in terms of a "procedural universality"...

..b>Postmodernism is revealed as susceptible to liberal bias and racist exclusions common in U.S. culture...

..the effect of a three hour per week, six week critical reflection program, grounded in knowledge paradigms of postmodernism, reflexivity and critical theory, on third year undergraduate physiotherapy students' experience of their ..

..We framed these issues within 1) the context(s) and effects of postmodernism and 2) the increasing call for a globally relevant and applicable system of pain care...

..The writing of Foucault and Lyotard and the concept of postmodernism fit well with the idea that the consultation between doctors and patients is increasingly becoming a contested ..

..A secondary analysis of the findings of two separate studies was undertaken, one on the elderly with delirium and the other with indigenous Maori women...

b>Postmodernism has appeared on the psychoanalytic horizon and with it brought change and some confusion...

..from a holistic approach to working with patients and introduces a viewpoint that includes opinions on how postmodernism, the biopsychosocial model and a patient-centred interviewing style can change traditional, biomedical-..

b>Postmodernism and health economics are both concerned with questions about choices and values, risk and uncertainty...

..b>Postmodernism raises questions and awareness of power, diversity, temporality, and situatedness in which normative ideas of ..

Social workers interested in postmodernism have been provided an abundance of theory, but little to guide them in direct practice in diverse child welfare roles...

..Advocates of postmodernism cast doubt upon the grand narrative of modernism and critique modern social science as perpetuating ..

..It closes with reflections on ways in which we cultivate and extend our knowledge base and on the intellectual contexts of positivism and postmodernism that surround behavioral and ecological thinking.

..new respect for the diversity of family forms, (6) increased accent on the role of emotion, (7) the influence of postmodernism, (8) greater recognition of couple violence, and (9) the move toward integration across models of treatment.

..With regard to these subjects, plural accounts of "common sense" moral reasoning exist...

..This article describes how deconstruction can be used to enhance nursing education of Generation Y students, and its application to reading comprehension and writing skills is explored...

This article addresses the many faces of postmodernism and offers the critique that postmodernism taken up in a particular extremist way can tend to sacrifice the sacred, the spiritual, and the recognition of our "greater than human&..

..We argue that if medicine does not respond to the ideas of post-modernism, which challenges the concepts of truth and our ability to be objective, it may become increasingly irrelevant to the needs of a changing society...

..The second rule concerns the distinction of types, which is less evident at a time which cultivates postmodernism. The "types" which absolutely must be distinguished are: science, ethics, morals, law, politics...

Objective: The aim of this paper is to consider two recent approaches to moral philosophy - postmodernism and discourse ethics - and evaluate their potential contribution to psychiatric ethics...

This article presents both the general concept of postmodernism and its reflection in a wide array of fields of interest. In particular, the paper reviews the postmodernist perspective as it appears in healthcare and medicine...

b>Postmodernism has been criticized as failing to offer, on the one hand, authoritative explanations for social phenomena that might provide a scientific basis for policy formation or, on the other, the philosophical justification for ..

..Finally, some potentialities and new roles that this development towards a risk society and increased individualization paradoxically can open up for people with mental disabilities are outlined...

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..era demarcated from modernity by a broad reversal in cultural presuppositions, is distinguished from postmodernism, an intellectual posture adopted by self-identified postmodernists early in postmodernity...

..Arguably, greater depth and explanations for gender and mental health issues are presented within a realist metatheory...

..The article concludes by considering the political implications of this revision of public understanding...

..Based on these findings, recommendations for future feminist research in nursing are outlined...

..Without a set of common moral values and rankings, and a moral authority to interpret cases the casuistry of the postmodern age will be pluralistic, that is, there will be many casuistries not just one...

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..This study, by describing the current patterns of teaching/learning strategies and approaches used by nurse educators, provides a beginning research base for improving nursing education...

..that the controversy need not be a philosophical one, and that Relational views are not, in fact, a product of postmodernism, nor are they necessarily dependent on a postmodern epistemology...

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..Finally, emerging from this process, the article culminates with a proposed conceptual definition of life purpose, which may be applied broadly to older adults in various critical care settings...

..In this process, the applicant will develop competence to lead independent studies of the long-term treatment of bipolar disorder as a principal investigator. ..

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..Especially given suggestions that some patients may markedly worsen with antidepressants, better understanding of when to use, and when not to use, antidepressants in bipolar disorder is a major public health concern. ..

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..Power will range from .66 to .99 depending on recruitment rates (projected to range from 15% to 25%) and the magnitude of difference in outcomes between the two conditions. ..

..Data from a core set of background and proximal variables (which are common to all three IRPG projects) will be combined to further examine the models produced. ..

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