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Towards a Foucauldian reading of the Australian mental health nursing workforce.
Full Abstract
This article reflects on the findings of the recently published Scoping Study of the Australian Mental Health Nursing Workforce from the perspective of Foucault's work on 'governmentality'. First, the policy background to the scoping study is described. This is followed by a discussion of Foucauldian concepts and method that will be used to explore selected aspects of the scoping study. The related concepts of 'governmentality' and 'technologies of the self' are used to begin a theoretically grounded analysis of mental health nursing education and practice, with particular attention to discourses of 'change' and 'survival'. The examples chosen are used to support the argument that competing discourses order multiple 'readings' of Australian mental health nursing, including whether or not it is thriving or surviving. The article ends with comments on whether a Foucauldian analysis adds anything to what has been reported in the scoping study.
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Author information
Author/s: Clinton, Michael (M); Hazelton, Michael (M);
Affiliation: School of Public Health, Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845, Australia. M.Clinton(-atsign-)curtin.edu.au
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Review
Journal: International journal of mental health nursing (Int J Ment Health Nurs), published in Australia. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Mar; vol 11 (issue 1) : pp 18-23
Dates: Created 2002/10/28; Completed 2002/11/08; Revised 2005/11/16;
PMID: 12400103, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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