Nursing and adolescent health promotion: an inquiry following the philosophical oeuvre of Michel Foucault

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dc.contributor.authorRyan, Maureen Margaret
dc.contributor.supervisorPurkis, Mary Ellen
dc.date.accessioned2013-11-25T23:47:21Z
dc.date.available2014-10-26T11:22:06Z
dc.date.copyright2013en_US
dc.date.issued2013-11-25
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Nursing
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy Ph.D.en_US
dc.description.abstractFollowing the philosophical oeuvre of Michel Foucault, I locate and discuss how the discursive formulation of adolescent health promotion defines the conceptual possibilities and determines the boundaries of nurses’ thinking and practices as they are written about in nursing texts. From my archaeological work, I locate and name two confident nursing practices within the context of young people and their health: “reducing risk” and “promoting well becoming” and go on to locate those practices within two broader theoretical discourses within human science: the biological view and the social constructionist view. From my genealogical work, I consider how the management of the adolescent body has become a matter that situates biological life (puberty) as a political event and situates the nurse within governing practices of pastoral power. I question the ways in which adolescent health may be shaped through political interests of economy and social order and question: When is an adolescent ever deemed responsible in matters pertaining to their health? I offer an alternative view of responsibility and argue for a shift in established binary thinking that allows for the consideration of co-responsibility.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0569en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0758en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0680en_US
dc.description.proquestemailmmryan@uvic.caen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5037
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectadolescent health promotionen_US
dc.subjectnursingen_US
dc.subjectFoucaulten_US
dc.subjectarchaeologyen_US
dc.subjectgenealogyen_US
dc.subjectco-responsibilityen_US
dc.titleNursing and adolescent health promotion: an inquiry following the philosophical oeuvre of Michel Foucaulten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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