1st Edition
Nursing a Radical Imagination Moving from Theory and History to Action and Alternate Futures
Introduction
Part I: Towards a Re/Visioned History for Nursing
Chapter 1- Alleviating the Suffering of Others: Nursing and Humanitarian Reason Under Neoliberalism, Thomas Foth, and Evy Nazon
Chapter 2- Finding CASSANDRA: Mythology, Hagiography, Historiography for Nursing
Jess Dillard Wright
Chapter 3- Madeleine Knows Best: Culture, Race, and Whiteness in the Discipline of Nursing
Cory Ellen Gattrall
Part II: A Critical Understanding of the Present
Chapter 4- For Whom Does the Alarm Bell Toll? On Nursing Identity and Revolution
Candace Burton, Dave Holmes, Danisha Jenkins, and Jon McIntyre
Chapter 5- Imagining afFIRMative Futures for Nursing
Jamie Smith and Eva Willis
Chapter 6- Hypervisible Nurses in the Covidicene: Reclaiming the Scripts of Personhood and Agency
Amelie Perron
Chapter 7- Metastatic Growth: The Healthcare Industry’s Increasing Contribution to the Plasticene
Emmanuel Christian Tedjasukmana
Part III: A Radical Imagination for Nursing
Chapter 8- ‘Settler Harm Reduction’ in Nursing Education: Generativity not Hierarchy
Blythe Bell
Chapter 9- Using Arts-Based Participatory Methods to Teach Cultural Safety
Ruth De Souza
Chapter 10a: Artificial Intelligence for Health and Care is Not Inevitable: Introduction and Critical Vocabulary
Rae Walker
Chapter 10b: Artificial Intelligence for Health and Care is Not Inevitable: Ten Commitments to New Futures
Rae Walker
Part IV: Getting There: Speculative Paths for the Present/Future
Chapter 11- Horizons: Shifting the Gaze and Topography of Nursing Education
DaJanae Gresham-Ryder, Venika Marwaha, and Claire Valderama-Wallace
Chapter 12- Open Nursing Science: Using Citizen Science to Make Nursing Knowledge Wide-Open
Patrick McMurray
Chapter 13- Posthuman Pedagogy: Metamorphosing Nursing Education for a Dying Planet
Brandon Blaine Brown
Chapter 14- #AbolishNursing: An Ethics for Creating Safer Realities
Em Rabelais
Epilogue
Biography
Jessica Dillard-Wright is an Assistant Professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst Elaine Marie College of Nursing. She/they is also the 21-22 University of California Irvine Center for Nursing Philosophy Fellow.
Jane Hopkins-Walsh is a primary care pediatric nurse practitioner at Boston Children’s Hospital, USA, and a PhD candidate at Boston College Connell School of Nursing.
Brandon Brown is a bedside nurse, teacher, clinical assistant professor and doctor of education student at the University of Vermont in Burlington, USA.






