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John S Drummond

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PubMed2005

The rhizome and the tree: a response to Holmes and Gastaldo.

This paper both welcomes and explores the recent article in Nursing Philosophy by Dave Holmes and Denize Gastaldo. Holmes and Gastaldo's paper introduced us to Deleuze and Guattari's philosophical concepts of 'arborescent thought' and 'rhizomatic thought', respectively. These concepts were used to illuminate and critique certain aspects of contemporary nursing theory and educational practice. Arborescent thought is held to stifle and constrain the development of the discipline of nursing, while rhizomatic thought is presented as a more fitting way forward across a diversity of knowledges and methods of inquiry. We are thus urged to engage in a metamorphosis from an arborescent way of thinking to a rhizomatic one. The paper below, while applauding the introduction of these concepts into nursing thought, raises some questions as to their proposed utility and relationship as given in the paper by Holmes and Gastaldo. This is done in a spirit of collaboration, motivated by a desire to further explore the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze (and Felix Guattari).

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PubMed2005

Relativism.

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PubMed2004

Nursing and the avant-garde.

Through an exploration of the theory of the avant-garde, this paper explores the task for nursing in the new humanities of the 21st Century. Drawing on the theory of the avant-garde in general and the work of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida in particular, it argues that nursing must always return to its basic principles, that of the human condition (humanitus). But in doing so, it must also consider its place at the table of the humanities that are undergoing profound changes in western capitalist societies both in the education and practice sectors. It is through its connection with the humanities that the notion of the avant-garde is used to introduce the concept of reconnaissance-thinking again. The purpose and usefulness of this approach for nursing lies in the argument that progress or improvement, whether it be in some aspect of care or professional issue, always involves returning to something, to think of something in a new way. Thus, although nursing still has certain issues to resolve (which I attend to below), thinking through these issues with reference to the avant-garde gives ground for optimism, towards a future that is not yet determined.

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PubMed2002

Should only nurses do nursing research?

UNLABELLED: ( RESEARCH: careful investigation or study especially of a scholarly or scientific nature [from French, recercher, "to search closely"])In this column, Jane Koziol-McLain, PhD, RN, CEN, formerly a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and section editor of this Journal's RESEARCH Column, and currently Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, and co-director of the Interdisciplinary Trauma RESEARCH Unit, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand (E-mail: Jane.Koziol-McLain@aut.ac.nz), posed a question to 2 nursing leaders: "Should only nurses do nursing research?"

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