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The role of nursing within a Marxist analysis of the world is considered, and the value of such analysis is described. In the first of a six-part series the sociological theories of Karl Marx are examined and related to the purported neutrality of medicine.
- Autonomy and caring: Towards a Marxist understanding of nursing work
The aim of this paper is to re-examine nursing work from a...
- Autonomy and caring: Towards a Marxist understanding of nursing work
19 mar 2018 · Karl Marx’s theory on social class related to the owners of the means of production (the bourgeoisie who owned land, buildings, machinery and wealth) and those required to sell their labour to survive (the proletariat).
The aim of this paper is to re-examine nursing work from a Marxist perspective by means of a critique of two key concepts within nursing: autonomy and caring. Although Marx wrote over 150 years ago, many see continuing relevance to his theories.
Marx means by class exhibits the cognitive and volitional character of the central concept of Marx's science, and hence clarifies the relation between science and ideology in Marx's theory.
The Neo-Marx ist approach views social class in terms of class relations that give persons control over productive assets and the labour power of others (property and managerial relations).
Marx has, to the best of my knowledge, never written about the occupation of nursing, although the link between capitalism and health has been well explored. In this paper I am asking what it might be to develop a Marxist understanding of nursing today and how this approach might help us to make
24 kwi 2022 · The first chapter seeks to synthesize some of Marx and Engels’ main contributions (and, in a complementary way, of twentieth-century Marxist authors) to the understanding of social classes, class struggle, and the working class in particular.
