Author Archives: grahammccaffrey

I.  In hermeneutic research we like to talk about the “address of the topic” based on Gadamer’s idea that understanding begins when something addresses us – when we notice something in the world and start to think about it. (This is more than a subliminal noticing in everyday life, for example I notice that IContinue reading “Addressing the Address”

I created this website as part of a research project to find out more about how nurses understand and make use of arts and humanities in their work. In 2023 I was successful in getting grant funding to go ahead with it. Since then, along with two graduate research assistants, Randip Dhaliwal and Davey HamadaContinue reading “What I am learning as I start reading interview transcripts.”

I have been thinking about things for a while now – by which I mean things, not words or concepts or ideas or language or discourses or conversations…. Nursing theory and research pay far too little attention to things, objects, stuff, materiality – between the so-called paradigms of qualitative and quantitative research there is a duopolyContinue reading “The Poetry of Things”

For the past several years, on and off, I have been reading works by a French philosopher, Michel Serres (1930-2019). I came across his work, or one of his works, a book called The Five Senses, with a subtitle, A philosophy of mingled bodies, in an essay by Brian Treanor, the co-editor of the volume Carnal Hermeneutics. Treanor pickedContinue reading “Michel Serres”

Laurie Anderson: Language is a Virus  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvOoR8m0oms Knowledge Translation is defined as a dynamic and iterative process that includes synthesis, dissemination, exchange and ethically-sound application of knowledge to improve the health of Canadians, provide more effective health services and products and strengthen the health care system. This process takes place within a complex system ofContinue reading “KT -It’s a Virus!”