In Search of Nursing Science

Name: In Search of Nursing Science
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ISBN: 9780803950948

ISBN-10: 0803950942

ISBN-13: 9780803950948

Edition: 1995

Authors: Anna K. Omery, Christine E. Kasper, Gayle G. Page

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In the field of nursing, which schools of philosophical thought have the greatest influence? Does any one philosophical school dominate, or has nursing been shaped by the interplay of various philosophical tenets? In Search of Nursing Science provides an incisive analysis of modern theories currently influencing and challenging the field of nursing. Contributors explore and offer their insights on such diverse philosophical schools as empiricism, feminism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, critical theory, and poststructuralism. Each philosophic school is carefully explored and its relationship to - and influences on - the past, present, and future of nursing are considered. Addressing a…

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List price: $129.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/9/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.90" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.342

Professor and Independence Chair, School of Nursing, John Hopkins University.




Introduction and the Empiricist School of Thought


Introduction: Nursing Science for Nursing Practice



Contemporary Empiricism



Pragmatism



The Problem with the Bottom Line



Revolutionary/Evolutionary Philosophy of Science


Science as Tradition and Tradition Shattering



Thomas Kuhn's Philosophy of Science


Moving Beyond



A Generative Philosophy of Science


Science as Problem Solving



An Evolutionary Approach to the Discipline of Nursing and Nursing Administration




Postmodern Philosophy of Science


Feminism, Science and Nursing



The Method Question



Pain: An Issue of Gender



Phenomenology and Science



The Experience of Surgery



Phenomenological Clinical Nursing Research


A Hermeneutical Human Science for Nursing



Passages Through the Heart



A Hermeneutic of Choice


Critical Theory for Science of Nursing Practice



Methodology for Critical Theory



Critical Action Research


Post-Structuralist Science



An Historical Account for Profound Visibility


Severe Mental Disability? Or a Play of Wills?




The Relationship Between Science and Practice


Applied Science, Practice and Intervention Technology



Science and Practice



The Nature of Knowledge


Science as the Predictor of Professional Recognition and Success



Epilogue: The Journey Continues