Nursing knowledge
Subtitle: science, practice, and philosophy
By: Mark Risjord.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex; Ames, Iowa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405184342
Subjects: Nursing -- Philosophy; Nursing -- Practice; Nursing Theory; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Nursing Process; Philosophy, Nursing
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pre-history of the problem; title: Opening the relevance gap; title: Toward a philosophy of nursing science; title: Practice values and the disciplinary knowledge base; title: Models of value-laden science; title: Standpoint epistemology and nursing knowledge; title: The nursing standpoint; title: Logical positivism and mid-century philosophy of science; title: Echoes in nursing; title: Rejecting the received view; title: Post-nursing theory inquiry; title: The structure of theory; title: Models, mechanisms, and middle-range theory; title: Consequences of contextualism; title: Conceptual models and the fate of grand theory; title: The rise of qualitative research; title: What is a paradigm?; title: Methodological separatism and reconciliation; title: Redrawing the map.