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ADVANCES IN NURSING SCIENCE
Volume 26, Issue 1, Pages 44-52Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/00012272-200301000-00007
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discourse analysis; epistemology; feminism; nursing; postmodernism
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Grounded in a postmodern feminist methodology, this article undertakes an initial analysis of a newly emerging discourse in contemporary nursing academia in the United States. Two currently prominent discourses in nursing, a dominant discourse informed by the processes and values of science in the Enlightenment sense and a concurrent marginalized discourse informed by postmodernism, are described as a context for the emerging discourse. A genealogy informed by the work of Foucault is presented as a basis for an analysis of the power effects resulting from the conflict between these 2 discourses. Finally, 3 recent texts in nursing are analyzed and common. themes identified as indicative of a new intertextual discourse, termed epistemic diversity, emerging from this discursive conflict.
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