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Nursing knowledge : science, practice, and philosophy / Mark Risjord.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Chichester, West Sussex ; Ames, Iowa : Blackwell Pub. 2010Description: 246 pISBN:
  • 9781405184342
  • 1405184345
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 610.73 22
LOC classification:
  • RT84.5
Other classification:
  • Vpg
Contents:
Pre-history of the problem -- Opening the relevance gap -- Toward a philosophy of nursing science -- Practice values and the disciplinary knowledge base -- Models of value-laden science -- Standpoint epistemology and nursing knowledge -- The nursing standpoint -- Logical positivism and mid-century philosophy of science -- Echoes in nursing -- Rejecting the received view --
Post-nursing theory inquiry -- The structure of theory -- Models, mechanisms, and middle-range theory -- Consequences of contextualism -- Conceptual models and the fate of grand theory -- The rise of qualitative research -- What is a paradigm? -- Methodological separatism and reconciliation -- Redrawing the map.
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Book Högskolan Väst Övre plan / Upper floor 610.73 Risjord Available 6004300024447
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pre-history of the problem -- Opening the relevance gap -- Toward a philosophy of nursing science -- Practice values and the disciplinary knowledge base -- Models of value-laden science -- Standpoint epistemology and nursing knowledge -- The nursing standpoint -- Logical positivism and mid-century philosophy of science -- Echoes in nursing -- Rejecting the received view --

Post-nursing theory inquiry -- The structure of theory -- Models, mechanisms, and middle-range theory -- Consequences of contextualism -- Conceptual models and the fate of grand theory -- The rise of qualitative research -- What is a paradigm? -- Methodological separatism and reconciliation -- Redrawing the map.