Developing nursing knowledge :philosophical traditions and influences
General Material Designation
[book]
First Statement of Responsibility
/Beth L. Rodgers
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Philadelphia
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, c2005
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xvii, 228 p.
Other Physical Details
:ill. ;23 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Understanding nursing knowledge -- Knowledge in classical philosophy -- Knowledge from within: the rationalism of Descartes -- The road to modern science: British empiricism -- The transcendental idealism of Immanual Kant -- Modern science: mirror of reality -- Science in context: historicist conceptualizations of science -- Conceptual repertoires and leaps -- The postmodern turn -- Interpretive inquiry: the mirror cracked -- Feminism and science -- Problems and practicalities in developing nursing knowledge -- Models for nursing knowledge development -- The future of nursing knowledge.