title: [Brazilian literature on nursing work founded on marxist categories].
abstract: This article discusses the Brazilian scientific literature on nursing work based on Marxist categories, with the aim of investigating their contributions and tendencies. The study is a quanti-qualitative review of 97 articles published between 1981 and 2008, indexed in the LILACS. It is discussed: number and periodical distribution; themes; methodological and conceptual approaches. It was identified: a growing body of literature on nursing especially from 2000 onwards; the growth of approaches on the subjects, their perceptions and social interaction; the incorporation recently into the debate on caring and nursing care management; the predominance of qualitative research and, from the 1990s onwards, the incorporation of concepts from other theoretical paths linked to Marxists categories. There was evidence of a search for understanding of the movements, contradictions and dilemmas in nursing as a heterogeneous social practice.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Faculdade de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, MT, Brasil. enmandu@terra.com.br
authors.forename: Edir Nei Teixeira
authors.initials: EN
authors.lastname: Mandú
authors.forename: Marina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Peduzzi
authors.forename: Brígida Gimenez
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Carvalho
authors.forename: Ana Maria Nunes
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: da Silva
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D003148:Communism; D006801:Humans; D009729:Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing