title: [Nursing as social practice: an exercise of reflection].
abstract: In this work we aimed at reflecting about the nursing as a social practice. To build these ideas, we reconsidered this concept in its philosophical and social roots. With the purpose to contribute for this reflection, we looked for the characteristics that define the nursing as an historical and socially build practice, through the nursing development, since its beginning. At last we also propose a concept of social practice and, into this perspective, we built,along the text, an other concept for the nursing.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, AL.
authors.forename: Maria Cristina A Figueiredo
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Trezza
authors.forename: Regina Maria Dos
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.forename: Joséte Luzia
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Leite
mesh_terms: D009729:Nursing; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D012961:Sociology