abstract background: historical research has limitations in applying proper and credit-worthy chronology to clarify the data. in this methodology, the application of oral history is one of the ways in which answers to questions addressed by the research theme are elicited. oral history, as a clear and transparent tool, needs to be applied with guidelines for qualitative researchers regarding da...

dynamic unconscious, and evolutionary theory's creation of a psychology of adaptation. Leahey has read widely in recent secondary sources; his account therefore stands out as a genuine attempt at synthesis (and is not a rehash of E. G. Boring; e.g., in the account of Wundt's ideas). But though there is reference to social change, the institutional discipline-and certainly explanatory social fac...

This article is about Edith Magalhães Fraenckel’s life in the scenario of Brazilian Nursing in the XX Century. It describes the professional life in the context of her daily life, focusing her trajectory in the Brazilian Nursing Association (ABEn). The research method used interviews from the ABEn’s collection of History of Nursing and also the author’s personal collection, as well as books and...

In a professional discipline which has at its core a service founded upon a body of knowledge and associated skills, responsibilities for research and scholarship are commonly thought to be critical to developing and improving nursing practice. The scope of knowledge required in nursing with its scientific and humanitarian aspects underscores "the need for philosophical and historical scholars ...

This study aims to describe the construction of knowledge as a component of professional power in gerontological nursing in Brazil between 1970 and 1996. It is a descriptive study with qualitative socio-historical approach that used oral history and was developed with 14 nurses, who are pioneers in the area. The categories found are: 1. The origin of gerontological nursing studies; 2. The inclu...