An emerging discourse: toward epistemic diversity in nursing.
Grounded in a postmodern feminist methodology, this article undertakes an initial analysis of a newly emerging discourse in contemporary nursing academia in the United States. Two currently prominent discourses in nursing, a dominant discourse informed by the processes and values of "science" in the Enlightenment sense and a concurrent marginalized discourse informed by postmodernism, are described as a context for the emerging discourse. A genealogy informed by the work of Foucault is presented as a basis for an analysis of the power effects resulting from the conflict between these 2 discourses. Finally, 3 recent texts in nursing are analyzed and common themes identified as indicative of a new intertextual discourse, termed "epistemic diversity," emerging from this discursive conflict.
Georges
Jane M
JM
Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science, University of San Diego, San Diego, California 92110-2492, USA. jgeorges@sandiego.edu
D003142:Communication; D019513:Feminism; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D009729:Nursing; D033302:Postmodernism