The thought of Antonio Gramsci as a theoretical benchmark of study in the history of Nursing

Abstract

Each history of nursing researcher is free in its interpretation. We all feel the need to order our theoretical field, not to fall in the nihilism of cluttered moving by history. This article aims to propose a theoretical reflection on the thought of Antonio Gramsci as a Theoretical benchmark of study in the history of nursing. To GRAMSCI, the relationship of subordination and domination between groups are objects of the social-history research. The concern of Gramsci is the set of forces that make up the reality and the relationship between these forces, in the quest for hegemony. Nursing represents a social force, created by fights and collisions between political power (dominant), and other social groups. The analysis of these collisions gives us outbreaks of the history of nursing interpretation. The dispute for hegemony, in a broad sense, suggests, through passive revolutions, alliances between groups, organization of trade unions and associations of classes, the construction of new social imaginary, new ideologies. From the lens of Gramsci interpretation of the history of nursing, we can draw, through the times, the identity of the nurse, which is the main basis of achievement of cultural hegemony of nursing.