The philosophy of nurse education
John Drummond, Paul Standish
- 1st ed
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York Palgrave Macmillan 2007
- xiv, 250 p. ; 24 cm
Introduction. Philosophical Enquiry into Education / J. Drummond & P. Standish -- Part I. Ethics of education and practice -- 1. Nursing, and the Notion of Virtue as a 'Regulative Ideal' / P. A. Scott -- 2. Philosophy and Health Education: the case of lung cancer and smoking / P. Allmark and A. Todd -- 3. Foucault, Nurse Counselling and Narrative Therapy / T. Besley -- Part II. Profession, knowledge and practice -- 4. Care, Sensibility and Judgment / M. Luntley -- 5. Practice and its informing knowlege: an Aristotelian understanding / J. Dunne -- 6. Profession and Practice: The Higher Education of Nursing / P. Standish -- Part III. Curriculum and expertise -- 7. The Myth of the Golden Mean: Professional Knowledge and the Problem of Curriculum Design / G. Lum -- 8. Distributed Expertise and the Education Reflex / J. Paley -- 9. Particularizing the General: Challenges in Teaching the Structure of Evidence Based Nursing Practice / S. Thorne & R. Sawatzky -- Part IV. Politics of education, knowledge and society -- 10. Little Narratives of Nursing: Education in a Postmodern World / G. Rolfe -- 11. Care of the Self in a Knowledge Economy: Higher Education, Vocation and the Ethics of Michael Foucault / J. Drummond -- 12. Gadamer's Enigma of Health: Can Health be Reduced? / M. Peters, K. Hammond & J. Drummond