On the Politics of Ignorance in Nursing and Health Care: Knowing Ignorance

by Amelie Perron and Trudy Rudge

Book Overview

Ignorance is mostly framed as a void, a gap to be filled with appropriate knowledge. In nursing and health care, concerns about ignorance fuel searches for knowledge expected to bring certainty to care provision, preventing risk, accidents, or mistakes. This unique volume turns the focus on ignorance as something productive in itself and works to understand how ignorance and its operations shape what we do and do not know.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138632325
• ISBN13: 9781138632325
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"