Cyborgs, biotechnologies, and informatics in health care - new paradigms in nursing sciences.
Nursing Sciences are at a moment of paradigmatic transition. The aim of this paper is to reflect on the new epistemological paradigms of nursing science from a critical approach. In this paper, we identified and analysed some new research lines and trends which anticipate the reorganization of nursing sciences and the paradigms emerging from nursing care: biotechnology-centred knowledge; the interface between nursing knowledge and new information technologies; body care centred knowledge; the human body as a cyborg body; and the rediscovery of an aesthetic knowledge in nursing care.
Coimbra Nursing School, Health Sciences Research Unit-Nursing, Coimbra, Portugal.
Ana Paula Teixeira de Almeida Vieira
AP
Monteiro
D001709:Biotechnology; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D008490:Medical Informatics; D009729:Nursing; D012371:Robotics
biotechnology; computers; cyborgs; epistemology