Postcolonial nursing scholarship: from epistemology to method.

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Postcolonial theory, with its interpretations of race, racialization, and culture, offers nursing scholarship a set of powerful analytic tools unlike those offered by other nursing and social theories. Building on the foundation established by those who first pointed to the importance of incorporating cultural aspects into nursing care, nursing scholarship is in a position to move forward. Critical perspectives such as postcolonialism equip us to meet the epistemological imperative of giving voice to subjugated knowledges and the social mandates of uncovering existing inequities and addressing the social aspects of health and illness. This article makes a case for the integration of postcolonial perspectives into theorizing and sketches out a research methodology based on the postcolonial tradition.

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Author/s: Kirkham, Sheryl Reiner (SR); Anderson, Joan M (JM);

Affiliation: Nursing Department, Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia.

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Publication Type: Journal Article; Review

Journal: ANS. Advances in nursing science (ANS Adv Nurs Sci), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-Sep; vol 25 (issue 1) : pp 1-17

Dates: Created 2003/07/31; Completed 2003/09/04; Revised 2007/10/26;

PMID: 12889574, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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