, Routledge Research in Nursing and Midwifery
NURSING A RADICAL
IMAGINATION
MOVING FROM THEORY AND HISTORY TO ACTION
AND ALTERNATE FUTURES
Jess Dillard-Wright, Jane Hopkins-Walsh,
and Brandon Brown
,Nursing a Radical Imagination
Examining the historical context of healthcare while focusing on building a
more just, equitable world, this book proposes a radical imagination for nursing
and presents possibilities for speculative futures embracing queer, feminist,
posthuman, and abolitionist frames.
Bringing together radical and emancipatory perspectives from an inter-
national selection of authors, this book reflects on the realities created by the
COVID-19 pandemic, recognizing that our situation is not new but the result of
ongoing hegemonies and injustices. The authors attend to the history of nursing
and related institutions, examining the assumptions, ideologies, and discourses
that shape the discipline and its place within healthcare. They explore the
impact of this context on contemporary nursing and look at alternative visions
for the future. The final section specifically focuses on ways that we can move
forward.
Envisioning new possibilities for nursing, this innovative volume is a vital
resource for practitioners, scholars, and students keen to promote social justice
within and without nursing. It is an important contribution to nursing theory,
philosophy, and history.
Jess Dillard-Wright is an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts
Amherst Elaine Marie College of Nursing. She/they is also the 21–22 University
of California Irvine Center for Nursing Philosophy Fellow.
Jane Hopkins-Walsh is a primary care pediatric nurse practitioner at Boston
Children’s Hospital, USA, and a PhD candidate at Boston College Connell
School of Nursing.
Brandon Brown is a bedside nurse, teacher, clinical assistant professor, and
doctor of education student at the University of Vermont in Burlington, USA.
, Routledge Research in Nursing and Midwifery
Joy at Birth
An Interpretive, Hermeneutic, Phenomenological Inquiry
Susan Crowther
Paradoxes in Nurses’ Identity, Culture and Image
The Shadow Side of Nursing
Margaret McAllister and Donna Lee Brien
Birthing Outside the System
The Canary in the Coal Mine
Edited by Hannah Dahlen, Bashi Kumar-Hazard and Virginia Schmied
Nursing and Humanities
Graham McCaffrey
Grading Student Midwives’ Practice
A Case Study Exploring Relationships, Identity and Authority
Sam Chenery-Morris
Complexity and Values in Nurse Education
Dialogues on Professional Education
Edited by Martin Lipscomb
Nursing Theory, Postmodernism, Post-structuralism, and Foucault
Olga Petrovskaya
Substance Use, End of Life Care and Multiple Deprivation
Practice and Research
Edited by Gary Witham, Sarah Galvani, Sam Wright and Gemma A. Yarwood
Nursing a Radical Imagination
Moving from Theory and History to Action and Alternate Futures
Edited by Jess Dillard-Wright, Jane Hopkins-Walsh, and Brandon Brown
For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/
Routledge-Research-in-Nursing/book-series/RRIN
NURSING A RADICAL
IMAGINATION
MOVING FROM THEORY AND HISTORY TO ACTION
AND ALTERNATE FUTURES
Jess Dillard-Wright, Jane Hopkins-Walsh,
and Brandon Brown
,Nursing a Radical Imagination
Examining the historical context of healthcare while focusing on building a
more just, equitable world, this book proposes a radical imagination for nursing
and presents possibilities for speculative futures embracing queer, feminist,
posthuman, and abolitionist frames.
Bringing together radical and emancipatory perspectives from an inter-
national selection of authors, this book reflects on the realities created by the
COVID-19 pandemic, recognizing that our situation is not new but the result of
ongoing hegemonies and injustices. The authors attend to the history of nursing
and related institutions, examining the assumptions, ideologies, and discourses
that shape the discipline and its place within healthcare. They explore the
impact of this context on contemporary nursing and look at alternative visions
for the future. The final section specifically focuses on ways that we can move
forward.
Envisioning new possibilities for nursing, this innovative volume is a vital
resource for practitioners, scholars, and students keen to promote social justice
within and without nursing. It is an important contribution to nursing theory,
philosophy, and history.
Jess Dillard-Wright is an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts
Amherst Elaine Marie College of Nursing. She/they is also the 21–22 University
of California Irvine Center for Nursing Philosophy Fellow.
Jane Hopkins-Walsh is a primary care pediatric nurse practitioner at Boston
Children’s Hospital, USA, and a PhD candidate at Boston College Connell
School of Nursing.
Brandon Brown is a bedside nurse, teacher, clinical assistant professor, and
doctor of education student at the University of Vermont in Burlington, USA.
, Routledge Research in Nursing and Midwifery
Joy at Birth
An Interpretive, Hermeneutic, Phenomenological Inquiry
Susan Crowther
Paradoxes in Nurses’ Identity, Culture and Image
The Shadow Side of Nursing
Margaret McAllister and Donna Lee Brien
Birthing Outside the System
The Canary in the Coal Mine
Edited by Hannah Dahlen, Bashi Kumar-Hazard and Virginia Schmied
Nursing and Humanities
Graham McCaffrey
Grading Student Midwives’ Practice
A Case Study Exploring Relationships, Identity and Authority
Sam Chenery-Morris
Complexity and Values in Nurse Education
Dialogues on Professional Education
Edited by Martin Lipscomb
Nursing Theory, Postmodernism, Post-structuralism, and Foucault
Olga Petrovskaya
Substance Use, End of Life Care and Multiple Deprivation
Practice and Research
Edited by Gary Witham, Sarah Galvani, Sam Wright and Gemma A. Yarwood
Nursing a Radical Imagination
Moving from Theory and History to Action and Alternate Futures
Edited by Jess Dillard-Wright, Jane Hopkins-Walsh, and Brandon Brown
For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/
Routledge-Research-in-Nursing/book-series/RRIN
