The Philosophy of Nurse Education [Paperback]

In recent years, philosophical issues in nursing and health care have become more evident in the academic literature. The Philosophy of Nurse Education covers a variety of philosophical perspectives and enhances ideas of learning, teaching and curriculum design.In recent years, philosophical issues in nursing and health care have become more evident in the academic literature. The Philosophy of Nurse Education covers a variety of philosophical perspectives and enhances ideas of learning, teaching and curriculum design.Introduction: Philosophical Enquiry into Education; J.Drummond & P.Standish.- PART 1: ETHICS OF EDUCATION AND PRACTICE.- Nursing, and the Notion of Virtue as a 'Regulative Ideal'; P.A.Scott.- Philosophy and Health Education: the case of lung cancer and smoking; P.Allmark and A.Todd.- Foucault, Nurse Counselling and Narrative Therapy; T.Besley.- PART 2: PROFESSION, KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE.- Care, Sensibility and Judgment; M.Luntley.- Practice and its informing knowlege: an Aristotelian understanding J.Dunne.- Profession and Practice: The Higher Education of Nursing; P.Standish.- PART 3: CURRICULUM AND EXPERTISE.- The Myth of the Golden Mean: Professional Knowledge and the Problem of Curriculum Design; G.Lum.- Distributed Expertise and the Education Reflex; J.Paley.- Particularizing the General: Challenges in Teaching the Structure of Evidence Based Nursing Practice; S.Thorne & R.Sawatzky.- PART 4: POLITICS OF EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIETY.- Little Narratives of Nursing: Education in a Postmodern World; G.Rolfe.- Care of the Self in a Knowledge Economy: Higher Education, Vocation and the Ethics of Michael Foucault; J.Drummond.- Gadamer's Enigma of Health: Can Health be Reduced?; M.Peters, K.Hammond & J.Drummond.

JOHN S DRUMMOND is Senior Lecturer in Nursing at the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Dundee, UK. His research includes philosophy, the humanities and lã2