Perspectives on Philosophy of Science in Nursing: An Historical and Contemporary Anthology

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E. Carol Polifroni, Marylouise Welch
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1999 - Medical - 538 pages
This book helps you provide a well-rounded doctoral curriculum. The philosophy of science is essential to the core of doctoral study in nursing. This text presents historical and contemporary thinking on this significant subject. Readers will find a wealth of information from a variety of philosophers and conceptualizers of Western science. The text's approach stimulates analysis and reflection for enhanced learning. Coverage straddles the balance between nurse and non-nurse philosophers with discussion and reflective questions, and includes thoughts about nursing as a science and an art. Students will learn to recognize the connection between an understanding of philosophic inquiry and scientific investigation -- or research -- in nursing.
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Contents

SECTION
1
Reading
15
E Carol Polifroni Sheila A Packard
23
Reading
31
Nursing
90
Barbara A Carper
105
The Focus of the Discipline of Nursing
117
Sheila A CorcoranPerry
126
Reading 17
214
Victoria Wynn Leonard
315
197
328
Reading 25
339
Reading 26
347
Donald Wayne Viney Donald A Crosby
355
Edmund Husserl
371
Exposition of the Question of
382

Reading 4
133
Objectivity Value Judgment and Theory
149
Perspectives
153
Reading 5
163
Schumacher Susan R Gortner
179
SECTION FOUR
197
Campbell Sheila Bunting
411
SECTION SEVEN
423
Gender and Science
491
Ruth Ginzberg
498
Author Index
507
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Page 439 - control of nature" is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.

About the author (1999)

E. Carol Polifroni is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Connecticut.

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