1st Edition
Nursing a Radical Imagination Moving from Theory and History to Action and Alternate Futures
Examining the historical context of healthcare whilst focusing on building a more just, equitable world, this book proposes a radical imagination for nursing and presents possibilities for speculative futures embracing queer, feminist, posthuman, and abolitionist frames.
Bringing together radical and emancipatory perspectives from an international selection of authors, this book reflects on the realities created by the COVID-19 pandemic, recognizing that our situation is not new but the result of ongoing hegemonies and injustices. The authors attend to the history of nursing and related institutions, examining the assumptions, ideologies, and discourses that shape the discipline and its place within healthcare. They explore the impact of this context on contemporary nursing and look at alternative visions for the future. The final section specifically focuses on ways that we can move forward.
Envisioning new possibilities for nursing, this innovative volume is a vital resource for practitioners, scholars and students keen to promote social justice within and without nursing. It is an important contribution to nursing theory, philosophy and history.
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.
