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Table of contents

  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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About this book

Introduction

attached

Keywords

nurse nursing nursing research

Editors and affiliations

  • Steven D. Edwards
    • 1
  1. 1.Centre for Philosophy and Health CareUniversity of WalesSwanseaUK

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14235-4
  • Copyright Information Macmillan Publishers Limited 1998
  • Publisher Name Palgrave, London
  • eBook Packages Medicine
  • Print ISBN 978-0-333-67210-5
  • Online ISBN 978-1-349-14235-4
  • Buy this book on publisher's site
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