Developing nursing knowledge : philosophical traditions and influences / Beth L. Rodgers.
Material type: TextPublication details: Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2005.Description: xvii, 228 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 0781747082
- 610.73 22 ROD-D 2005 400232
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.