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Empirical nursing : the art of evidence-based care /
This book seeks to provide students and practicing nurses with the tools to better understand and engage in scientific arguments to support quality nursing and evidence-based practice. The nature of nursing and its relationship with science remains an area of ongoing debate, controversy and consider...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bingley, UK :
Emerald Publishing Limited,
2018.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; References; Preface: Using this Book; Chapter 1 Science and Nursing
- Why Should I Care?; Science Under Siege; Nursing Epistemology; Science and Technology in Nursing; Science and Medicine in Contemporary Health Care; Nursing Science; Nursing Praxis; Pragmatism and its Value for Nursing; Making Sense of Nursing Theory; Summary; Key Points for Further Discussion; References; Chapter 2 The Rise of Empiricism; The Beginnings of Science; Science in the Medieval World; The Renaissance and Scientific Revolution.
- The Age of EnlightenmentMathematical Probability; Rationalism; A Priori and a Posteriori Knowledge; The Rise of Empiricism; The Hypothetico-deductive Method; Inductive Reasoning; The Problem of Induction; Deductive Reasoning; Abductive Reasoning; Summary; Key Points for Further Discussion; References; Chapter 3 Modern Science and Nursing; Romanticism; Positivism; Logical Positivism; Pragmatism; Classical Pragmatism; Neo-pragmatism; Post-positivism and Karl Popper's Critical Rationalism; Falsifiability; Popper's Critical Rationalism; Popper's Scientific Legacy.
- Thomas Kuhn: Scientific Evolution and RevolutionsThe Revolution in Physics and Its Impact on Scientific Philosophy; Summary; Key Points for Further Discussion; References; Chapter 4 Scientific Determinism, Causality and Care; Scientific Determinism and Causality; The Deductive-Nomological Model; The Deductive Statistical Model; The Inductive Statistical Model (I-S Model); The Statistical Relevance (S-R) Model; The Causal Mechanics (C-M) Model; The Pragmatic Model; Unification; Summary; Key Points for Further Discussion; References.
- Chapter 5 Social Science: Scientific Realism, Alternative Frameworks and the Rise of Postmodern ThoughtMetaphysics and Science; Scientific Realism; Arguments Supporting Scientific Realism; Criticism of Scientific Realism; Non-Realist Empirical Frameworks; Anti-Realism (Nominalism); Arguments for Anti-Realism; Criticism of Anti-Realism; The Mind-Body Problem Revisited; Reductionism and Holism; Reductionism; Holism; Interpretivist and Constructivist Rationales; Intentionality; Phenomenology; Hermeneutics; Critical Theory; Feminist Inquiry; Social Constructionism and Constructivism.
- PostmodernismEpistemological Relativism; The Development of Postmodern Thought; Deconstruction; Neo-Pragmatism; Ways of Knowing; Trans-cultural Nursing; Reaction to Postmodernism; Post-Structuralism; Post-postmodernism; Caring and the Divine; Unitary Human Beings; Health as Human Consciousness; Human Becoming; Caring Caritas; Integral Nursing; The Appeal to Divinity; Map of the Problematique: The Limits of Postmodern Thought; Description and Explanation vs Prediction; Research Culture and Ethics in the Social Sciences; Summary; Key Points for Further Discussion; References.