ArticleNursing philosophy : an international journal for healthcare professionals2025
Reclaiming Justice as Lived Praxis: A Phenomenological Critique of Social and Relational Justice in Nursing Practice.
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- When the Child Is Not Heard: Children's Rights and Epistemic Injustice in Paediatric Nursing Practice.Nursing philosophy : an international journal for healthcare professionals · 2026Article
- Looking Back/Looking Forward.Nursing philosophy : an international journal for healthcare professionals · 2026Article
- Thinking Habits Determine Possibilities for Equity: Results of a Critically Reflective Dialogue Study.Global qualitative nursing researchArticle
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Amid rising awareness of both overt and covert racism and the persistence of epistemic injustice within healthcare systems, there is an urgent need to revisit foundational ethical concepts in nursing. This article offers a critical and respectful engagement with Megan-Jane Johnstone's (2011) conceptualisation of justice as a basic human need grounded in a distributive framework. While her work significantly advanced justice as a moral imperative in nursing, it reflects an individualistic and deontological orientation that can insufficiently address the relational, embodied, and structural dimensions of injustice experienced by racialised patients and practitioners. Drawing on contemporary phenomenological philosophy, relational ethics, and post-pandemic scholarship, I advance an alternative view of justice as a dynamic, intersubjective, and contextually situated practice. Engaging with thinkers such as Merleau-Ponty, Carel, Fricker, and proponents of Ubuntu ethics, this article argues for a shift from distributive to relational justice, one that centres mutual recognition, epistemic humility, and ethical responsiveness. Such a reconceptualisation offers a more inclusive and situated ethical framework, capable of responding to the moral complexities and inequities shaping contemporary nursing practice.
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