Where have all the flowers gone? Nursing's escape from the radical critique
Stephen Kermode
School of Health and Human Sciences, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW
Claire Brown
School of Nursing and Health Care Practices, Southern Cross University, NSW
PP: 008 - 015
Abstract
The radical critique, born out of the social unrest of the 1960s and early 1970s, has provided a strong basis for criticism of most social institutions.
This paper examines the basic tenets of the radical critique and the extent to which competing paradigms within nursing have silenced the radical critique for nursing.
Keywords
nursing, professions, social and economic aspects of illness, sociology
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