title: [Nursing research and positivism].
abstract: The authors discuss positivism foundations; the most remarkable influences to comtian's philosophy structuration; how Comte's ideas, as doctrine in so far as method, dominate society's thoughts, passing beyond XIX century and reaching XX century; and how the positivist doctrine and empirical method influenced Nursing conceptions about science and about human being/environment/disease.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: de Almeida
authors.forename: E R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: de Oliveira
authors.forename: T R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Garcia
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D009656:North America; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000266:history*; D010684:Philosophy / Q000266:history*; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing / Q000266:history*
vernacular_title: Pesquisa em enfermagem e o positivismo.