Since the terms of the health policy debate in the United States and Canada are largely supplied by biomedicine, the current “crisis” in health care is, in part, a product of biomedical rhetoric. In this essay, three metaphors widely identified as being associated with biomedicine—the body is a machine, medicine is war,and medicine is a business—are examined with a view to the ways in which they influence the health policy debate, not only with respect to outcomes, but also with respect to what can be argued at all. The essay proposes that biomedical language itself be foregrounded as the constitutive material of public discourse on health policy.

Public Discourse and Public Policy: Some Ways That Metaphor Constrains Health (Care)

Resocialization of Registered Nurse Students in Selected BSN Programs: Changes in Role Strain and Nursing Role Perspective

Interest in nursing theory, its definition and development, has increased considerably in recent years and such interest, attested by the number of publications on the subject, is more than justified. Three reasons come to mind: nursing's legitimate desire to be recognized as a full-fledged member of the scientific community, nursing's responsibility to contribute to knowledge in the health field and, perhaps most important but less often recognized, nursing's great need to acquire the knowledge essential for practice. As a service discipline, nursing must develop the knowledge that is required for its particular function in society.
The intent of this article is to examine the significance of the term "nursing theory" and to suggest certain conditions that should exist before a theory may be labelled "nursing". To do this, some very basic considerations will be reviewed.

https://cjnr.archive.mcgill.ca/article/download/948/948

Nursing Theory: What It Is and What It Is Not

Ao final de uma exploracao do conceito de papel, do papel do enfermeiro, e apos consideracoes sobre o elemento de conflito que permeia o papel deste profissional, propoe-se uma definicao teorica do papel do enfermeiro e apresenta-se uma tentattiva de opercaionaliza-la.

Marjorie A. Moore

Papers

Nursing: a scientific discipline?

The professional practice of nursing: the knowledge and how it is used.

Nursing: a scientific discipline? 1972.