Nursing ethics : a virtue-based approach / Alan E. Armstrong.
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TextPublication details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.Description: 256 p. ; 22 cmISBN: - 9780230506886 (hbk.) :
- 9780230506886 (hbk.) :
- 174.2 ARM
- RT85 .A76 2007
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| Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection | 174.2 ARM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 203102 | ||
| Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection | 174.2 ARM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 203101 |
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.