Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2023
Journal Title
Nursing Philosophy
Volume Number
24
Issue Number
2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/nup.12451
Version
Publisher PDF: the final published version of the article, with professional formatting and typesetting
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a CC BY-NC-ND License.
Disciplines
Nursing
Abstract
This paper is a personal dialogue of maneuvering the landscape of scholarship in the United States as a nurse faculty. The principal thesis of this paper is that a discursive shift from margins to mainstream literature has occurred within nursing discourse during the past 20 years as the result of a growing body of work by nurse philosophers. I utilize my own work in nursing philosophy as an exemplar and provide a narrative situated in a feminist-critical paradigm. This paper: (1) presents a historical background through a critical-feminist lens of the discursive shift using my own work and lived experiences as exemplars; (2) examines a contemporary mainstream ‘authoritative’ text as an exemplar of this discursive shift and (3) proposes both potential positive intersections and threats in the future development of nursing philosophy resulting from this discursive shift.
Digital USD Citation
Georges, Jane M., "What Has Philosophy Ever Done for Nursing: A Discursive Shift From Margins to Mainstream" (2023). School of Nursing and Health Science: Faculty Scholarship. 44.
https://digital.sandiego.edu/nursing_facpub/44