ABSTRACT
Philosophy offers a means of unpacking and grappling with important questions and issues relevant to nursing practice, research, scholarship, and education. By engaging in these discussions, this Handbook provides a gateway to new understandings of nursing.
The Handbook, which is split loosely into seven sections, begins with a foundational chapter exploring philosophy’s relationship to and with nursing and nursing theory. Subsequent sections thereafter examine a wide range of philosophic issues relevant to nursing knowledge and activity.
- Philosophy and nursing, philosophy and science, nursing theory
- Nursing’s ethical dimension is described
- Philosophic questions concerning patient care are investigated
- Socio-contextual and political concerns relevant to nursing are unpacked
- Contributors tackle difficult questions confronting nursing
- Difficulties around speech, courage, and race/otherness are discussed
- Philosophic questions pertaining to scholarship, research, and technology are addressed
International in scope, this volume provides a vital reference for all those interested in thinking about nursing, whether students, practitioners, researchers, or educators.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|50 pages
Philosophy and nursing
part 2|49 pages
An ethical profession
chapter 10|8 pages
Nursing and morality in China
part 3|108 pages
Patient care
part 4|72 pages
Socio-contextual and political concerns
chapter 24|11 pages
The promotion of resilience in nursing
chapter 25|11 pages
Problematizing moral distress, moral resilience and moral courage
chapter 26|11 pages
Equality, equity, and distributional justice in nursing
chapter 27|13 pages
Avoiding the triumph of emptiness
part 5|59 pages
About care
part 6|83 pages
Questions for nursing
chapter 40|13 pages
No as an act of care
part 7|76 pages
Scholarship, research, technology