Social Theory and Nursing

<p>Despite noteworthy exceptions nursing’s literature largely disregards the ways in which social and sociological theory permeates guides and shapes research education and practice. Likewise social theory’s ability to position nursing within wider structures of healthcare and educational provision is similarly and puzzlingly downplayed. The questions nurses ask and the problems they face cannot however adequately be addressed without engaging with social and sociological theory and to progress this engagement contributors to this book explore how social theories are used by and might apply to nursing and nursing practice. </p><p>The book draws on a wide range of perspectives – philosophical theoretical empirical and political – to offer a robust and wide-ranging critique and analysis. <em>Social Theory and Nursing</em> is essential reading for nursing researchers academics and educators as well as scholars and researchers in medical sociology medicine and allied health.</p>