Rodgers, Beth L. <br/><br/>
Developing nursing knowledge :  philosophical traditions and influences / 
Beth L. Rodgers. 
 - Philadelphia :  Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,  c2005. 
 - xvii, 228 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0781747082 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004014790 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Nursing--Philosophy--History.<br/>Knowledge, Theory of--History.<br/>Philosophy, Nursing--history.<br/>Knowledge.<br/>Nursing Theory.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>610.73  / ROD-D 2005 400232