Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Enlightenment, rationality and colonisation; Sawing off the branch and sitting: the context of the postmodern; Erasing the boundaries: speech into text, comment into text; Locating nursing within the discourses of the Enlightenment; The origins of the texts: management interviews and nursing questionnaires; The interviews part I: discourses of rationality; The interviews part II: subjects and objects, autonomy and tradition; Morality and self-sacrifice: the nurses' comments; Beyond oppression and profession.