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.