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The professional imagination: narrative and the symbolic boundaries between medicine and nursing

The professional imagination: narrative and the symbolic boundaries between medicine and nursing
The professional imagination: narrative and the symbolic boundaries between medicine and nursing
The sociology of nursing, despite decisive interventions by recent commentators, continues to take as its main focus the subordination of nursing to biomedicine. This view reflects analytic stability, as well as institutional inertia. Far less attention has been paid by sociologists to the ways in which nursing is constructing its difference from medicine, and the exercise of the professional imagination that this involves. This paper suggests a strategy by which this might be remedied, which would focus on professional narratives.
0309-2402
1094-1100
May, Carl
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Fleming, Christine
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May, Carl
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Fleming, Christine
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May, Carl and Fleming, Christine (1997) The professional imagination: narrative and the symbolic boundaries between medicine and nursing. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 25 (5), 1094-1100. (doi:10.1046/j.1365-2648.1997.19970251094.x).

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The sociology of nursing, despite decisive interventions by recent commentators, continues to take as its main focus the subordination of nursing to biomedicine. This view reflects analytic stability, as well as institutional inertia. Far less attention has been paid by sociologists to the ways in which nursing is constructing its difference from medicine, and the exercise of the professional imagination that this involves. This paper suggests a strategy by which this might be remedied, which would focus on professional narratives.

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Published date: May 1997
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Local EPrints ID: 163379
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/163379
DOI: doi:10.1046/j.1365-2648.1997.19970251094.x
ISSN: 0309-2402
PURE UUID: 3356953a-eda7-4d14-b115-8a42185e97b4
ORCID for Carl May: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0451-2690

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Author: Carl May ORCID iD
Author: Christine Fleming

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