-
14Another nursing is possible: Ethics, political economies, and possibility in an uncertain worldNursing Philosophy 25 (3). 2024.Overtaxed by the realities laid bare in the pandemic, nursing has imminent decisions to make. The exigencies of pandemic times overextend a health care infrastructure already groaning under the weight of inequitable distribution of resources and care commodified for profit. We can choose to prioritise different values. Invoking philosopher of science Isbelle Stengers's manifesto for slow science, this is not the only nursing that is possible. With this paper, I pick up threads of nursing's histo…Read more
-
14Dangerous and Unprofessional Content: Anarchist Dreams for Alternate Nursing FuturesPhilosophies 9 (1): 25. 2024.Professionalized nursing and anarchism could not be more at odds. And yet, if nursing wishes to have a future in the precarious times in which we live and die, the discipline must take on the lessons that anarchism has on offer. Part love note to a problematic profession we love and hate, part fever dream of what could be, we set out to think about what nursing and care might look like after it all falls down, because it is all falling down. Drawing on alternate histories, alternate visions of n…Read more
-
11Nursing as total institutionNursing Philosophy 25 (1). 2024.Healthcare under the auspices of late‐stage capitalism is a total institution that mortifies nurses and patients alike, demanding conformity, obedience, perfection. This capture, which resembles Deleuze's enclosure, entangles nurses in carceral systems and gives way to a postenclosure society, an institution without walls. These societies of control constitute another sort of total institution, more covert and insidious for their invisibility (Deleuze, 1992). While Delezue (1992) named physical …Read more
-
10Special issue guest editorial: The thoughts we think with—As philosophers, as nurses—MatterNursing Philosophy 24 (3). 2023.
-
11Telling a different story: Historiography, ethics, and possibility for nursingNursing Philosophy 24 (3). 2023.With this paper, I will interrogate some of the implications of nursing's dominant historiography, the history written by and about nursing, and its implications for nursing ethics as a praxis, invoking feminist philosopher Donna Haraway's mantra that ‘it matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories.’ First, I will describe what I have come to understand as the nursing imaginary, a shared consciousness constructed both by nurses from within and by those outside the discipline from …Read more
-
Nursing a Radical Imagination Moving from Theory and History to Action and Alternate Futures (edited book)Routledge. 2022.
-
22The Vitruvian nurse and burnout: New materialist approaches to impossible idealsNursing Inquiry 31 (1). 2024.The Vitruvian Man is a metaphor for the “ideal man” by feminist posthuman philosopher Rosi Braidotti (2013) as a proxy for eurocentric humanist ideals. The first half of this paper extends Braidotti's concept by thinking about the metaphor of the “ideal nurse” (Vitruvian nurse) and how this metaphor contributes to racism, oppression, and burnout in nursing and might restrict the professionalization of nursing. The Vitruvian nurse is an idealized and perfected form of a nurse with self‐sacrificia…Read more
-
10Everyday Resistance in the U.K.’s National Health ServiceJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 1-11. forthcoming.Resistance is a concept understudied in the context of health and healthcare. This is in part because visible forms of social protest are sometimes understood as incongruent with professional identity, leading healthcare workers to separate their visible actions from their working life. Resistance takes many forms, however, and focusing exclusively on the visible means more subtle forms of everyday resistance are likely to be missed. The overarching aim of this study was to explore how resistanc…Read more
-
14Notes on [post]human nursing: What It MIGHT Be, What it is NotNursing Inquiry 31 (1). 2024.With this paper, we walk out some central ideas about posthumanisms and the ways in which nursing is already deeply entangled with them. At the same time, we point to ways in which nursing might benefit from further entanglement with other ideas emerging from posthumanisms. We first offer up a brief history of posthumanisms, following multiple roots to several points of formation. We then turn to key flavors of posthuman thought to differentiate between them and clarify our collective understand…Read more
-
15The case for “structural missingness:” A critical discourse of missed careNursing Philosophy 21 (1). 2020.Stimulated by our conversations at the 2018 International Philosophy of Nursing Society Conference and our shared interests, the coauthors present an argument for augmenting the broader discussion of “missed care” with our synthesized concept called structural missingness. We take the problem of missed care to be largely grounded on a particular economic construction of the healthcare system within an era of what some are calling the Capitalocene, capturing the pervasive influence of capitalism …Read more
-
14Nursing for the Chthulucene: Abolition, affirmation, antifascismNursing Philosophy 24 (1). 2023.Critical posthumanism as a philosophical, antifascist nonhierarchical imagination for nursing offers a liberatory passageway forward amidst environmental collapse, an epic pandemic, global authoritarianism, extreme health and wealth disparities, over‐reliance on technology and empirics, and unjust societal systems based in whiteness. Drawing upon philosophical and theoretical works from Black and Indigenous scholars, Haraway's idea of the Chthulucene, Deleuze and Guattari's rhizomatic thought, a…Read more
-
13What nursing chooses not to know: Practices of epistemic silence/silencingNursing Philosophy 24 (3). 2023.Drawing from a keynote panel held at the hybrid 25th International Philosophy of Nursing Conference, this discussion paper examines the question of epistemic silence in nursing from five different perspectives. Contributors include US‐based scholar Claire Valderama‐Wallace, who meditated on ecosystems of settler colonial logics of nursing; American scholar Lucinda Canty discussed the epistemic silencing of nurses of colour; Canadian scholar Amelie Perron interrogated the use of disobedience and …Read more
-
36Electronic health record as a panopticon: A disciplinary apparatus in nursing practiceNursing Philosophy 20 (2). 2019.The specific arrangements of power/knowledge that characterize nurse interactions with the electronic health record form a panopticon. As health care moves into the 21st century, sophisticated technologies like the electronic health record shape the terrain of professional possibilities. The longer it is in use, the more it is possible to excavate the inherent disciplinary function of electronic health record. A panopticon is a generalizable, replicable apparatus of power that cultivates discipl…Read more
-
21A radical imagination for nursing: Generative insurrection, creative resistanceNursing Philosophy 23 (1). 2022.In the crucible of the pandemic, it has never before been clearer that, to ensure the relevance and even the survival of the discipline, nursing must cultivate a radical imagination. In the paper that follows, I trace the imperative for conjuring a radical imagination for nursing. In this fever dream for nursing futures, built on speculative visions of what could be, I draw on anarchist, abolitionist, posthuman, Black feminist, new materialist and other big ideas to plant seeds of generative ins…Read more
Augusta University
Alumnus, 2020
Springfield, MA, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Feminist Philosophy of Science |
Continental Feminism |
20th Century American Philosophy, Misc |