Notes on [post]human nursing: What It MIGHT Be, What it is Not.
Nurs Inq
; 31(1): e12562, 2024 Jan.
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| ID: mdl-37211658
ABSTRACT
With this paper, we walk out some central ideas about posthumanisms and the ways in which nursing is already deeply entangled with them. At the same time, we point to ways in which nursing might benefit from further entanglement with other ideas emerging from posthumanisms. We first offer up a brief history of posthumanisms, following multiple roots to several points of formation. We then turn to key flavors of posthuman thought to differentiate between them and clarify our collective understanding and use of the terms. This includes considerations of the threads of transhumanism, critical posthumanism, feminist new materialism, and the speculative, affirmative ethics that arise from critical posthumanism and feminist new materialism. These ideas are fruitful for nursing, and already in action in many cases, which is the matter we occupy ourselves with in the final third of the paper. We consider the ways nursing is already posthuman-sometimes even critically so-and the speculative worldbuilding of nursing as praxis. We conclude with visions for a critical posthumanist nursing that attends to humans and other/more/nonhumans, situated and material and embodied and connected, in relation.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Feminism
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Humanism
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Nurs Inq
Journal subject:
ENFERMAGEM
Year:
2024
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United States