Nursing knowledge : science, practice, and philosophy
By: Risjord, Mark W.
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BookPublisher: Chichester, West Sussex ; Ames, Iowa : Wiley-Blackwell Pub., 2010Description: xviii, 246 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9781405184342 (pbk. : alk. paper); 1405184345 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Nursing -- Philosophy | Nursing -- Practice | Nursing Theory | Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice | Nursing Process | Philosophy, NursingDDC classification: 610.73 RMN | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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