Beyond continental and African philosophies of personhood, healthcare and difference

In this study, I explore the challenges that ideological hegemonies of personhood imbibed by nurses and other healthcare workers could pose for the nursing profession, particularly in terms of inhibiting the acknowledgment of difference. Dominant or hegemonic conceptions of personhood in particular...

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主要作者: Imafidon, Elvis (Author)
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語言:English
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出版: Wiley-Blackwell 2022
In: Nursing philosophy
Year: 2022, 卷: 23, 發布: 3
Further subjects:B Ubuntu
B embodied subject
B Continental Philosophy
B Difference
B African Philosophy
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總結:In this study, I explore the challenges that ideological hegemonies of personhood imbibed by nurses and other healthcare workers could pose for the nursing profession, particularly in terms of inhibiting the acknowledgment of difference. Dominant or hegemonic conceptions of personhood in particular spaces often consist of self-contained ideas and essentialist ontologies and normativity of what it means to be a person, lack of which results in the denial of personhood and the othering as non-person or sub-person. The other as the residue of such self-contained notions of personhood is most often denied the quality of care that the one who fits within such conceptions enjoy. For nurses and other healthcare workers to overcome such exclusionary tendencies in healthcare, they must overcome hegemonies and ideological dominance and be more open to alternative viewpoints and theories of personhood. I develop these lines of thought by focusing on the rich ideological traditions of Continental and African philosophies showing how exclusion takes place within these traditions based on conceptions of personhood and how such exclusion on the basis of difference impacts negatively on healthcare. I conclude by highlighting the need to go beyond hegemonic philosophies of personhood by decolonizing and demasculinizing healthcare, thereby allowing difference to flourish in an ecology of medical knowledge.
ISSN:1466-769x
Contains:Enthalten in: Nursing philosophy
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/nup.12393