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On the Politics of Ignorance in Nursing and Health Care - Knowing Ignorance (Paperback)
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On the Politics of Ignorance in Nursing and Health Care - Knowing Ignorance (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Key Themes in Health and Society
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Ignorance is mostly framed as a void, a gap to be filled with
appropriate knowledge. In nursing and health care, concerns about
ignorance fuel searches for knowledge expected to bring certainty
to care provision, preventing risk, accidents, or mistakes. This
unique volume turns the focus on ignorance as something productive
in itself and works to understand how ignorance and its operations
shape what we do and do not know. Focusing explicitly on nursing
practice and its organization within contemporary health settings,
Perron and Rudge draw on contemporary interdisciplinary debates to
discuss social processes informed by ignorance, ignorance's
temporal and spatial boundaries, and how ignorance defines what can
be known by specific groups with differential access to power and
social status. Using feminist, postcolonial and historical
analyses, this book challenges dominant conceptualizations and
discusses a range of "nonknowledges" in nursing and health work,
including uncertainty, abjection, denial, deceit and taboo. It also
explores the way dominant research and managerial practices
perpetuate ignorance in healthcare organisations. In health
contexts, productive forms of ignorance can help to future-proof
understandings about the management of healthy/sick bodies and
those caring for them. Linking these considerations to nurses'
approaches to challenges in practice, this book helps to unpack the
power situated in the use of ignorance and pays special attention
to what is safe or unsafe to know, from both individual and
organisational perspectives. On the Politics of Ignorance in
Nursing and Health Care is an innovative read for all students and
researchers in nursing and the health sciences interested in
understanding more about transactions between epistemologies,
knowledge building practices and research in the health domain. It
will also be of interest to scholars involved in the
interdisciplinary study of ignorance.
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