Postmodernism
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

A confusion of tongues between psychoanalysis and philosophy: is the controversy over drive versus relational theory a philosophical one?

30 May 2009 In recent years the controversy over Drive versus Relational models of the psyche has become entangled in a philosophical controversy over epistemology. Some have argued that the Drive model was a relic of an age of positivistic science, while ... Read more...

The use of innovative pedagogies in nursing education: an international perspective.

29 Apr 2009 The purpose of this global study was to explore the types of innovative pedagogies used in nursing education worldwide; transformative learning theory served as the theoretical basis for the study. A descriptive, mixed-method design with a ... Read more...

Using a synthesised technique for grounded theory in nursing research.

Apr 2009 AIMS: To introduce a synthesised technique for using grounded theory in nursing research. BACKGROUND: Nursing increasingly uses grounded theory for a broadened perspective on nursing practice and research. Nurse researchers have choices in how to ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Postmodernism'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• A confusion of tongues between psychoanalysis and philosophy: is the controversy over drive versus relational theory a philosophical one? 30 May 2009
• Job, abjection, and the ruthless god. 30 May 2009
• The use of innovative pedagogies in nursing education: an international perspective. 29 Apr 2009
• Vulnerability and ethics: considering our Cartesian hangover. 9 Apr 2009
• Using a synthesised technique for grounded theory in nursing research. Apr 2009
• Sibling violence silenced: rivalry, competition, wrestling, playing, roughhousing, benign. 30 Mar 2009
• Mixed methods or mixed meanings in research? 30 Mar 2009
• The essence of life purpose. 30 Mar 2009
• Complementary/alternative medicine: engulfed by postmodernism, anti-science and regressive thinking. 30 Mar 2009
• On truth and clinical psychoanalysis. 30 Mar 2009
• Is truth an illusion? Psychoanalysis and postmodernism. 30 Mar 2009
• Husserl and Heidegger: exploring the disparity. 30 Jan 2009
• An exploration of intent for narrative methods of inquiry. 30 Dec 2008
• Examining the conflation of multiculturalism, sexism, and religious fundamentalism through Taylor and Bakhtin: expanding post-colonial feminist epistemology. 30 Dec 2008
• On the way to learning. 30 Dec 2008
• Doomed to fail: the persistent search for a modernist mental health nurse identity. 30 Dec 2008
• Manufacturing disability: HIV, women and the construction of difference. 30 Dec 2008
• Identity and difference in health and healthcare. 30 Dec 2008
• Constructing a 'plausible narrative of progress' for nursing: a neopragmatist suggestion. 30 Dec 2008
• [Beyond Weimar Culture--the significance of the Forman thesis for a cultural approach to the history of science] 29 Nov 2008

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Technical information about 'Postmodernism'

Definition: A late 20th-century philosophical approach or style of cultural analysis that seeks to reveal the cultural or social construction of concepts conventionally assumed to be natural or universal. (from E.R. DuBose, The Illusion of Trust: Toward a Medical Theological Ethics in the Postmodern Age, Kluwer, 1995)

Descriptor UI: D033302

Alternative terms: Postmodernism;

Allowable Qualifiers: history;

Tree Number: K01.752.720;

History Note: 2003; use PHILOSOPHY 2002