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Philosophical Issues in Nursing

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Steven D. Edwards

    1. Centre for Philosophy and Health Care, University of Wales, Swansea, UK

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  • Addresses an area of growing interest to nurses and one where there is currently very little published literature available
    Brings together contributors of international reknown from all over the world

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Steven D. Edwards
      Pages 1-5

  3. Nursing Practice and Knowledge

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. The shift from the closed to the open body — ramifications for nursing testimony

      • Joan Liaschenko
      Pages 9-30

    3. Traditions and practice — nursing theory and political philosophy

      • Keith Cash
      Pages 31-45

    4. Change and nursing

      • Trevor Hussey
      Pages 47-64

  4. Conceptual Foundations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. Holism in nursing

      • Simon Woods
      Pages 67-87

    3. Positivism as a method in nursing research

      • Steven Edwards
      Pages 89-105

    4. Towards a credible theory of mind for nursing

      • Edward Lepper
      Pages 107-125

  5. The Nurse Curriculum

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Heidegger and the nurse curriculum

      • Stephen Horrocks
      Pages 129-145

    3. The unexamined life is not worth living

      • Janet Holt
      Pages 147-157

  6. The Self in Nursing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
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    2. The self

      • Paul Dawson
      Pages 161-179

    3. The self and compulsory treatment

      • Philip Ross
      Pages 181-199

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 201-205
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Philosophy and Health Care, University of Wales, Swansea, UK

    Steven D. Edwards

About the editor

Steven D Edwards RMN, BA(Hons), MPhil, PhD is a Lecturer in Health Care Ethics at the Centre for Philosophy and Health Care, the University of Wales at Swansea

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Philosophical Issues in Nursing

  • Editors: Steven D. Edwards

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14235-4

  • Publisher: Red Globe Press London

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Macmillan Publishers Limited 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-67210-5Due: 18 February 1998

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 216

  • Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave

  • Topics: Nursing

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