The Practice of the Everyday in the Literature of Nursing |
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Authors: | Robert Leigh Davis Ph.D. |
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Affiliation: | Department of English, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH 45501, USA. rdavis@wittenberg.edu |
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Abstract: | If intense pain is "world-destroying," as Elaine Scarry has argued, one of the ways nurses respond to that loss is by re-enacting the commonplace-both in practice and in writing-through daily, accumulating acts of care. Such care poses a critique of medicine's emphasis on the exceptional moment and stresses forms of physical tending that are quotidian rather than heroic, ongoing rather than permanent or conclusive. I develop this view of care through the writings of nurses like Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, Cortney Davis and Joyce Renwick. |
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