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
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