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Nursing ethics : a virtue-based approach /

Armstrong, Alan E., 1967-

Nursing ethics : a virtue-based approach / Alan E. Armstrong. - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. - 256 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Illness, narratives and the value of the nurse-patient relationship--The virtues in general ethics--A critique of obligation based moral theories in general ethics--The origins, development and tenets of virtue ethics--Common objections to virtue ethics--A critical account of obligation based moral theories in nursing practice--Virtue-based moral decision making in nursing practice--MacIntyre\'s account of the virtues--MacIntyre\'s account of the virtues and the virtue based approach to moral decision making in nursing practice.

Reacting against the dominance of obligation-based moral theories in both general and nursing ethics, Armstrong proposes a 'strong' (action-guiding) account of a virtue-based approach to moral decision-making within contemporary nursing practice.

9780230506886 (hbk.) : £45.00 9780230506886 (hbk.) : Đ45.00


Nursing ethics.
Society.
Nursing
Ethics & moral philosophy

RT85 / .A76 2007

174.2 ARM

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