Exploring what the doing does... : a poststructural analysis of nurses' subjectivity in relation to pain /
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2000
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Price, Kay
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In this study, I focus specifically on nurses’ actions related to pain. I establish how a different way of theorising ‘pain’ can assist in exploring how nurses’ subjectivity is constituted. I seek to open up possibilities for challenge and resistance by nurses to the dominant practices that influence how actions of nurses in relation to pain, come to exist. In challenging taken-for-granted representations of how pain is understood, I do not discount representations reported in literature, or as stated by people considered, for example, pain‘experts’. Rather, I challenge how, these representations of pain and pain expertise, have come to exist as self-present truth, and seek to explore what other representations are marginalised as a consequence. I am aware that the interpretations of representations that I forward are open to this same critique.
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University of South Australia. School of Nursing and Midwifery.
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Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2000
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