TY  - BOOK
AU  - Armstrong,Alan E.
TI  - Nursing ethics: a virtue-based approach 
SN  - 9780230506886 (hbk.) :
AV  - RT85 .A76 2007
U1  - 174.2 ARM 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Basingstoke
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Nursing ethics
KW  - Society
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Nursing
KW  - thema
KW  - Ethics & moral philosophy
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -