Michael Crotty This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. hsr.e-contentmanagement.com

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   Published on: 2/12/2008   Last Visited: 2/19/2008

   Michael Crotty, first a moral theologian, then an educator in developing countries and finally a teacher in the graduate program in health studies at Flinders University, died this year, leaving a substantial body of work on the phenomenology he knew and loved so well. His first book on the subject, Phenomenology and Nursing Research (1996) deserves far more attention than it has received.
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   But culture is never uniform and Michael Crotty's ideas have been welcomed and already made a strong impact in some sectors of academic nursing. His guest workshops have provoked discussion about the differences between European and North American phenomenology and sent lecturers and students back to Husserl and Heidegger to test his conclusions for themselves.
   
   This article is a homage to his achievement, an introduction to his ideas for those who have not met them and an attempt to resolve one of the problems he identifies in nursing theory and research; the apparent unsuitability of phenomenology as a method for considering the ethical relations which are at the heart of nursing - the issue of `care' which nursing claims as its `philosophy', but which, as Crotty suggests, constantly needs to be re-visioned, reapprehended and re-stated.
   
   In the first part of the article, I outline Crotty's arguments about phenomenology and the `new' version he believes has jettisoned phenomenology's original aims.

2. 2. Review Article: Michael Crotty's Phenomenology and Nursing Research

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   Published on: 11/1/2004   Last Visited: 11/17/2006

   Michael Crotty, first a moral theologian, then an educator in developing countries and finally a teacher in the graduate program in health studies at Flinders University, died this year, leaving a substantial body of work on the phenomenology he knew and loved so well. His first book on the subject, Phenomenology and Nursing Research (1996) deserves far more attention than it has received.
   ...
   But culture is never uniform and Michael Crotty's ideas have been welcomed and already made a strong impact in some sectors of academic nursing. His guest workshops have provoked discussion about the differences between European and North American phenomenology and sent lecturers and students back to Husserl and Heidegger to test his conclusions for themselves.
   
   This article is a homage to his achievement, an introduction to his ideas for those who have not met them and an attempt to resolve one of the problems he identifies in nursing theory and research; the apparent unsuitability of phenomenology as a method for considering the ethical relations which are at the heart of nursing - the issue of `care' which nursing claims as its `philosophy', but which, as Crotty suggests, constantly needs to be re-visioned, reapprehended and re-stated.
   
   In the first part of the article, I outline Crotty's arguments about phenomenology and the `new' version he believes has jettisoned phenomenology's original aims.