On the Politics of Ignorance in Nursing and Health Care by Am... - 9781138819665

Taylor & Francis

On the Politics of Ignorance in Nursing and Health CareKnowing Ignorance\nAuthor(s): Amelie Perron, Trudy Rudge\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138819665, 978-1138819665\nSynopsis\nIgnorance 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.\n\nFocusing explicitly on nursing practice and its organization within contemporary health settings, Perron and Rudge draw on contemporary interdisciplinary debates to discuss social processes informed by ignorance, ignorances temporal and spatial boundaries, and how ignorance defines what can be known by specific g.