Nursing Ethics: A Virtue-Based Approach

✍ Scribed by Alan E. Armstrong (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 250
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Illness, Narratives and the Value of the Nurse-Patient Relationship....Pages 4-25
The Virtues in General Ethics....Pages 26-39
A Critique of Obligation-Based Moral Theories in General Ethics....Pages 40-76
The Origins, Development and Tenets of Virtue Ethics....Pages 77-94
Common Objections to Virtue Ethics....Pages 95-108
A Critical Account of Obligation-Based Moral Theories in Nursing Practice....Pages 109-124
Virtue-Based Moral Decision-Making in Nursing Practice....Pages 125-156
MacIntyre’s Account of the Virtues....Pages 157-179
MacIntyre’s Account of the Virtues and the Virtue-Based Approach to Moral Decision-Making in Nursing Practice....Pages 180-186
Conclusions....Pages 187-200
Back Matter....Pages 201-240

✦ Subjects

Nursing; Moral Philosophy; Nursing