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GENESE OG STRUKTUR AF KLINISK MEDICIN OG KLINISK SYGEPLEJE<br />

DEL IV: ENGELSK RESUMÉ, KILDER OG LITTERATUR<br />

16 English Summary<br />

This dissertation for the Ph.D. is a broad sociol<strong>og</strong>ical with in nursing science study of the<br />

origin and structure of nursing and <strong>medicin</strong>e as occupations and disciplines, and their respective<br />

educational evolution in Denmark.<br />

The study focuses on two periods; medical development between 1736-1937 and nursing development<br />

between 1863-1957. The main thrust of the dissertation has been on what today is<br />

referred to as clinical <strong>medicin</strong>e, and what has, during the last 20 years, been called clinical<br />

nursing. The two are complementary, bound t<strong>og</strong>ether, but with different practices and discourses.<br />

They are nevertheless homol<strong>og</strong>ous and connected one with the other. The leading<br />

idea is that it is a completely new understanding of the clinical - that binds the two respective<br />

disciplines and occupations t<strong>og</strong>ether.<br />

The thesis has been inspired by the work of the French philosopher Michel Foucault, who in<br />

his book The Birth of the Clinic, develops the idea related to France and partly for other European<br />

countries of how <strong>medicin</strong>e and medical education evolved in a new direction <strong>af</strong>ter the<br />

French revolution, and how completely new developments took place in <strong>medicin</strong>e - clinical<br />

<strong>medicin</strong>e was born.<br />

This thesis endeavours to ascertain how parallel developments have been evinced in Denmark<br />

and whether Foucault’s notions are found applicable to Denmark. Foucault states that there<br />

are periods (epochs) in the development of medical science prior to and <strong>af</strong>ter the French revolution,<br />

when a third period (epoch) began.<br />

For the analysis is utilised the work of the French sociol<strong>og</strong>ist Pierre Bourdieu’s Homo Academicus<br />

is utilised. As well as Bourdieu indicates an homol<strong>og</strong>y between the societal order and<br />

the academic scientific field. Homo Academicus presents an analysis of <strong>medicin</strong>e, or more<br />

specifically medical professors.<br />

Finally, Foucault’s discussion on the State, in his book Birth of a Clinic, and complementary<br />

with this, and on equal terms Bourdieu’s latest work on the theory of the State - t<strong>og</strong>ether provide<br />

a more integrated theory of modern society.<br />

The question asked in this dissertation is: whether the changes in <strong>medicin</strong>e which Foucault<br />

and Bourdieu showed in France are the same in Denmark? Foucault and Bourdieu do not include<br />

nursing, as does this dissertation, which accepts the challenge and responsibility of attempting<br />

to elucidate whether a similar development is applicable to nursing, and if this is the<br />

case, at what later point in time it occurred. It is possible to do this because one has as a working<br />

hypothesis that <strong>medicin</strong>e and nursing are not only in kinship with each other, and are assumed<br />

to run parallel, but are dependent on each other.<br />

The thesis goes a step further and provides the working hypothesis; that in certain situations is<br />

it necessary for clinical <strong>medicin</strong>e to contribute to the establishment of modern nursing as an<br />

essential part of its own enterprise. Which, perhaps can be interpreted as though nursing, even<br />

today, has not developed as an autonomous field.<br />

The approach taken when working with historical analysis and interpretation has been inspired<br />

by Bourdieu’s field theory. Bourdieu’s analysis of the academic field includes, as previously<br />

named, <strong>medicin</strong>e. In the dissertation nursing is included in the medical field as a type<br />

of sub-field. The question is - are similar ideas as observable within nursing as in <strong>medicin</strong>e?.<br />

The investigations of both are kept separate because they are, despite everything, not identi-<br />

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