The binary order of things: A discursive study of nursing students’ talk on providing, and learning about, LGBT patient care

Pinto, Pedro; Macleod, Catriona I; Nhamo-Murire, Mercy

Title: The binary order of things: A discursive study of nursing students’ talk on providing, and learning about, LGBT patient care
Creator: Pinto, Pedro
Creator: Macleod, Catriona I
Creator: Nhamo-Murire, Mercy
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2023
Date: 2023
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/441343
Identifier: vital:73878
Identifier: xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2022.2048163"
Description: Against the backdrop of the healthcare inequities and maltreatment facing LGBT patients, recommendations have been made for the inclusion of LGBT health topics in nursing curricula. Based on data collected in focus group discussions with South African nursing students, we complicate the assumption that training focused on health-specific knowledge will effectively reform providers’ prejudicial practices. Findings reveal ambivalence: silence and discrimination versus inclusive humanism. Participants drew on discourses of ignorance, religion, and egalitarian treatment to justify their inadequacy regarding LGBT patients; while doing so, however, they deployed othering discourses in which homophobic and transphobic disregard is rendered acceptable, and “scientifically” supported through binary, deterministic views of sexuality and gender. Such “expert” views accord with Foucault’s notion of “grotesque discourse.” We conclude with a discussion of the findings’ implications for nursing education; we call for the recognition and teaching of binary ideology as a form of discursive violence over LGBT lives.
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Format: online resource
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Format: 1 online resource (32 pages)
Format: pdf
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Language: English
Relation: Journal of Homosexuality
Relation: Pinto, P., Macleod, C.I. and Nhamo-Murire, M., 2023. The binary order of things: A discursive study of nursing students’ talk on providing, and learning about, LGBT patient care. Journal of Homosexuality, 70(10), pp.1979-2010
Relation: Journal of Homosexuality volume 70 number 10 p. 1979 2023 1540-3602
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