Keddy B
Issues Ment Health Nurs. 1996 Jul-Aug;17(4):381-91. doi: 10.3109/01612849609009408.
This theoretical research explores the discourse, language, texts, and practices that are part of the everyday work world of psychiatric nursing. How information is created, what becomes established knowledge, and how it is disseminated are the foci of this particular discourse. Psychiatric nursing "science" has developed from the work of nursing theorists and researchers in an attempt to raise the status of nursing. The result has been that this knowledge wields power. Most of this knowledge is based on positivist assumptions to predict and control patients' behavior. Drawing upon the work of postmodernists and the sociology of knowledge experts in discourse analysis, this paper concludes that, because information is humanly constructed, nurses have the power to alter knowledge, and thereby to bring about alternative ways of knowing and subsequent social and political change.
这项理论研究探讨了精神科护理日常工作领域中的话语、语言、文本及实践。信息是如何产生的、什么成为既定知识以及它是如何传播的，是这一特定话语的焦点。精神科护理“科学”源于护理理论家和研究者的工作，旨在提升护理的地位。结果是这种知识具有影响力。这种知识大多基于实证主义假设来预测和控制患者的行为。借鉴后现代主义者的著作以及话语分析领域知识社会学专家的观点，本文得出结论，由于信息是人为构建的，护士有权改变知识，从而带来不同的认知方式以及随后的社会和政治变革。
