Nursing research and the positivism

Authors

  • Ana Maria de Almeida USP; Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto; Departamento de Enfermagem Materno- Infantil e Saúde Pública
  • Elizabete Regina Araújo de Oliveira Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo; Departamento de Enfermagem
  • Telma Ribeiro Garcia Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Departamento de Enfermagem de Saúde Pública e Psiquiatria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0080-62341996000100003

Keywords:

Nursing research, Positivism

Abstract

The authors discuss positivism foundations; the most remarkable influences to comtian's philosophy structuration; how Comte's ideas, as doctrine in so far as method, dominate society's thoughts, passing beyond XIX century and reaching XX century; and how the positivist doctrine and empirical method influenced Nursing conceptions about science and about human being/environment/disease.

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Published

1996-04-01

Issue

Vol. 30 No. 1 (1996)

Section

Original Articles

License

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

How to Cite

Almeida, A. M. de, Oliveira, E. R. A. de, & Garcia, T. R. (1996). Nursing research and the positivism . Revista Da Escola De Enfermagem Da USP, 30(1), 25-32. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0080-62341996000100003