Nursing and Humanities.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Meaning-making and metaphor -- Nursing standpoint -- Overview of chapters -- Who the book is for -- References -- Chapter 1: Nursing and the humanities: Medical and health humanities -- Medical humanities -- Narrative medicine -- Nursing and humanities -- Medical humanities/health humanities -- Nursing humanities/health humanities -- The humanities -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Nursing and humanities: History and uses -- Humanities in nurse education -- History of nursing -- Philosophy of nursing -- Humanities and nursing research -- Nursing, art, and aesthetics -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: What is nursing? -- Naturalized nursing -- Basic drives -- Historical and cultural formation -- Institutions -- Is compassion the essence of nursing? -- Empathy versus compassion -- Nursing as a form of humanist practice -- Note -- References -- Chapter 4: Epistemic differences in nursing -- Evidence-based practice -- Science takes time -- One reality, many points of view -- Thinkers of the mixed -- Interpreting the mixture -- Interpretation in practice -- Interpreting "non-compliance" -- Motivational interviewing as interpretation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Cognitive science and experience -- Starting from where we are -- Carnal hermeneutics -- Damasio: brain, body, culture -- Enactivism -- Mental health - nursing bodies, brains, people … -- Negative plasticity and trauma -- Mental health - nursing histories -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Compassion and the pharmakon of the health humanities1 -- Health humanities, empathy, and compassion -- Pharmakon - definition and Derrida -- Humanities as pharmakon -- ISIS, war crime, Goethe Oak -- Compassion, contingency, and Weil's necessity.

Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 7: Prose and poetry in nursing -- Prose -- Narrative medicine -- Narratives and nurses -- Nurse narratives -- When narratives break down -- Poetry and nursing -- Lyric poetry -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 8: Nursing, Buddhism,interdependence -- Buddhism in the modern West -- Buddhism and nursing -- Interdependence -- Mental health histories -- Causes and conditions/stories -- Labels -- Boundaries and borderlines -- "Make me one with everything": interconnection versus holism -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 9: Nursing and humanities in the age of the post-human -- Nursing and technology -- The cyborg concept -- Nurse-robots -- Data, surveillance, self-surveillance -- Transhumanism -- Back to nursing and humanities -- Technology, education, and nursing -- Note -- References -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

Nursing and Humanities offers a way to think through the relationship between nursing and the humanities, in the context of the pluralistic nature of a practice profession that requires exact scientific and technical knowledge applied in complex, dynamic situations of human relating.

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