The philosophy of nurse education / edited by John S. Drummond and Paul Standish. - xiv, 250 p.

Introduction : philosophical enquiry into education / Nursing and the notion of virtue as a 'regulative ideal' / Philosophy and health education : the case of lung cancer and smoking / Foucault, nurse counselling and narrative therapy / Care, sensibility and judgement / Practice and its informing knowledge : an Aristotelian understanding / Profession and practice : the higher education of nursing / The myth of the golden mean : professional knowledge and the problem of curriculum design / Distributed cognition and the education reflex / Particularizing the general : challenges in teaching evidence-based nursing practice / Little narratives of nursing : education in the postmodern university / Care of the self in a knowledge economy : higher education, vocation and the ethics of Michel Foucault / Gadamer's The enigma of health : can health be produced? / John S. Drummond and Paul Standish -- P. Anne Scott -- Peter Allmark and Angela Tod -- Tina Besley -- Michael Luntley -- Joseph Dunne -- Paul Standish -- Gerard Lum -- John Paley -- Sally Thorne and Rick Sawatzky -- Gary Rolfe -- John S. Drummond -- Michael A. Peters, Keith Hammond and John S. Drummond. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

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