[Nurses' speeches on death and to die: truth or will].

Rev Bras Enferm

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Departamento de Enfermagem, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.

Published: December 2009

AI Article Synopsis

  • The text explores death and dying as socially and culturally constructed concepts, highlighting the importance of Cultural Studies in understanding nurses' perspectives on these topics.
  • The research involves analyzing articles from two national nursing publications, using Michel Foucault's frameworks to identify four key themes related to death: the silenced aspect of death, the ongoing fight against it, the representation of death in various forms, and the evolution of palliative care.
  • Ultimately, the study emphasizes how these publications contribute to shaping knowledge and attitudes about death while influencing the identities of nurses in their professional practice.

Article Abstract

We consider looking at the death and dying as a social, historical and cultural construction. Thus, in we approach them to the Cultural Studies to know nurses speeches on the subject. The research is periodic articles of two national ones of nursing. In the analyses we use tools proposals for Michel Foucault that they make possible to constitute four categories: the silenced and occulted death; stopping one it fights against the death; the death in scene: multiplicity of faces and the palliative death and cares: paradigm change. The study detaches the way as the publications operate in the production of knowing on the death and dying to them and subjectiving the nurses.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0034-71672009000300019DOI Listing

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