Nursing Outlook
Volume 52, Issue 5 , Pages 255-261 , September 2004

The rhetoric of rupture: Nursing as a practice with a history?

  • Sioban Nelson, RN, BA(Hons), PhD
  • ,
  • Suzanne Gordon

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    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Sioban Nelson, RN, BA(Hons), PhD, Professor, School of Nursing, The University of Melbourne, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053 Australia

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doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2004.08.001

Nursing Outlook
Volume 52, Issue 5 , Pages 255-261 , September 2004