Risjord, Mark W.,  1960- <br/><br/>
Nursing knowledge :  science, practice, and philosophy 

 - Chichester, West Sussex ;  Ames, Iowa :  Wiley-Blackwell Pub.,  2010. 
 - xviii, 246 p. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Prehistory of the problem -- Opening the relevance gap -- Toward a philosophy of nursing science -- Practice values and the disciplinary knowledge base -- Models of value-laden science -- Standpoint epistemology and nursing knowledge -- The nursing standpoint -- Logical positivism and mid-century philosophy of science -- Echoes in nursing -- Rejecting the received view -- Postnursing theory inquiry -- The structure of theory -- Models, mechanisms, and middle-range theory -- Consequences of contextualism -- Conceptual models and the fate of grand theory -- The rise of qualitative research -- What is a paradigm? -- Methodological separatism and reconciliation -- Redrawing the map. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781405184342 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1405184345 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009020260 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>101504975  DNLM 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Nursing--Philosophy.<br/>Nursing--Practice.<br/>Nursing Theory.<br/>Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.<br/>Nursing Process.<br/>Philosophy, Nursing.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RT84.5  / .R57 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>610.73 RMN