No statement could be more applicable to the discipline of nursing as it addresses its new world of practice and research. The shift in powers from the children of the depression to the children of Vietnam. This shift has given power to a generation of people with values that contrast sharply with those of the previous generation. The profitizing of health care. Dominant economic belief emphasizes the magic of the marketplace.
Health care is clearly a big business.
Fueling the growth of the business of health care is the myth that science will enable people to live forever. Computers and other technology are making the impossible, possible. Patients will be able to do a lot of self diagnosis and perform routine care on themselves or on members of their family. The shift from a linear to a nonlinear view of the world. In the later view, intuition stands equal with science.