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Patricia Benner's introduction to phenomenology develops the reader's understanding of the strategies and processes involved in this innovative approach to nursing. The author discusses the relationship between theory and practice, considers the possibility of a science of caring from a feminist perspective, introduces interpretive phenomenology to the study of natural groups such as families, and suggests a basis for developing nursing ethics that is true to the caring and healing practices of the nursing profession.
Beyond Normalizing: The Role of Narrative in Understanding Teenage Mothers' Transition to Mothering
Beyond Normalizing: The Role of Narrative in Understanding Teenage Mothers' Transition to Mothering
Our modern understanding of parenting in general, and teenage mothering in particular, is increasingly shaped by abstract formal knowledge that virtually excludes narrative accounts and practical understanding of everyday experience. After briefly describing how scientific-technical normalizing practices have become the privileged form of explaining young mothers' lives, skills, and competence, I argue for narratives as a source for recovering the experiential terms by which young mothers and their families understand their lives. Tammy's story is told to demonstrate the role that narratives play in showing lives to be situated and organized by practical, rather than disengaged, rationality.
Tammy's narrative is ...
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