BACKGROUND & AIMS:
:Previous notions of science as impartial and value-neutral have been refuted by contemporary views of science as influenced by social, political and ideological values. By locating nursing science in the dominant political ideology of liberalism, the author examines how nursing knowledge is influenced by liberal philosophical assumptions. The central tenets of liberal political philosophy - individualism, egalitarianism, freedom, tolerance, neutrality, and a free-market economy - are primarily manifested in relation to: (i) the individualistic focus of our science; (ii) our view of society as essentially egalitarian and equitable; (iii) our preference for politically neutral knowledge development, and (iv) an economy of knowledge development that supports rather than challenges the status quo. I argue that exposing, rather than ignoring, the liberal ideological values inherent in nursing science will render these assumptions open to debate, stimulate ongoing development of critically oriented knowledge, and increase our capacity to influence the social, political and economic determinants of health.
背景与目标:
:现代社会对科学的看法被社会,政治和意识形态价值观所反驳,以前的科学观念是公正和价值中立的。通过将护理科学定位于自由主义的主流政治意识形态中,作者研究了护理知识如何受到自由主义哲学假设的影响。自由主义政治哲学的中心宗旨是个人主义,平均主义,自由,宽容,中立和自由市场经济,主要体现在以下方面:(i)科学的个人主义焦点; (ii)我们认为社会本质上是平等的和平等的; (iii)我们偏爱政治上中立的知识发展,以及(iv)支持而不是挑战现状的知识发展经济。我认为,揭露而不是忽略护理科学固有的自由意识形态价值观,将使这些假设值得商debate,激发了以批判为导向的知识的不断发展,并增强了我们影响健康的社会,政治和经济决定因素的能力。