TY  - BOOK
AU  - Risjord,Mark W.
TI  - Nursing knowledge: science, practice, and philosophy 
SN  - 9781405184342 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - RT84.5 .R57 2010
U1  - 610.73 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Chichester, West Sussex, Ames, Iowa
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell Pub.
KW  - Nursing
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Practice
KW  - Nursing Theory
KW  - Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
KW  - Nursing Process
KW  - Philosophy, Nursing
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prehistory 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 --; Postnursing 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
ER  -