Developing nursing knowledge
Subtitle: philosophical traditions and influences
By: Beth L. Rodgers.
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Nursing -- Philosophy -- History.; Knowledge, Theory of -- History.; Philosophy, Nursing -- history.; Knowledge.; Nursing Theory.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding nursing knowledge; title: Knowledge in classical philosophy; title: Knowledge from within: the rationalism of Descartes; title: The road to modern science: British empiricism; title: The transcendental idealism of Immanual Kant; title: Modern science: mirror of reality; title: Science in context: historicist conceptualizations of science; title: Conceptual repertoires and leaps; title: The postmodern turn; title: Interpretive inquiry: the mirror cracked; title: Feminism and science; title: Problems and practicalities in developing nursing knowledge; title: Models for nursing knowledge development; title: The future of nursing knowledge.