Therapeutic touch and postmodernism in nursing

Therapeutic touch, a healing technique based upon the laying-on of hands, has found wide acceptance in the nursing profession despite its lack of scientific plausibility. Its acceptance is indicative of a broad antiscientific trend in nursing. Adherents of this movement use the jargon of postmodern...

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Main Author: Glazer, Sarah (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2001
In: Nursing philosophy
Year: 2001, Volume: 2, Issue: 3, Pages: 196-212
Further subjects:B Husserl
B Postmodernism
B Heidegger
B therapeutic touch
B Foucault
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