Revista de Enfermagem Comunitária e de Saúde Pública

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Complexity and Emergent Care

Cecilia Rita RÉ

Postmodernity arises with the paradigm of Complexity Sciences (CC) with support for theories, models, and practices of holistic care. They break with prevalent postulates. Open to innovative theoretical development, experimentation, and research, they reconstruct knowledge with universalistic cognitive omnipresence. Founded on quantum physics, qualitative mathematics and computer science, Galena's scientific knowledge and theories are under review, although you close your eyes to certain findings. Nursing has the opportunity to overcome the linear limits imposed by the evident scientific rational structure, circumscribed to materiality, sheltered by the hegemonic medical model (MMH).