The current context in nursing requires radical political analyses to deconstruct the dominant
discourses that map both the discipline and the profession. In response to the strong
reaction to articles, which critically examined the evidence-based movement in health
sciences, we believe that it is essential to offer a perspective that is capable of resisting the
progress of such discourses, which currently prevail in nursing and thus shape our
profession. We believe that the biomedical model/ideology is a form of colonial patronage …