Introduction
Martin Lipscomb
Nursing, Philosophy, and Nursing Philosophy
Mark Risjord
On the Contribution of the Nursing Theorists
Sally Thorne
Philosophy of Science and Nursing Research
Robyn Bluhm
What is the Art in the Art and Science of Nursing?
Graham McCaffrey
The Knowledge of Nursology
Jacqueline Fawcett
(Normative) Moral Theory and Nursing Practice
Paul Snelling
Nursing: a moral profession?
Roger Newham
Remembering the Future: Nursings Social Ethics
Marsha D Fowler
Nursing and Morality in China: The Necessity and Possibility of a Confucian Ethics of Care
Jing-Bao Nie
Islamic humanism: Towards Understanding Nursing Care for Muslim Patients
Mustafa M Bodrick, and Jason A Wolf, and Ghadah Abdullah, and Mutlaq B Almutairi, and Abdulaziz M Alsufyani, and Fatma S Alsolamy, and Hisham M Alfayyadh
Dependency
Simon van der Weele
Pain: Levinas and Ethics
Lawrence Burns
Vulnerability and Relations of Care
Thomas Foth
Placebo Effect and Nursing
Daniele Chiffi, and Mattia Andreoletti
Collectivism, personhood, and the role of patient and family
Ingrid Hanssen
A hermeneutical agential conception of suffering
Franco A Carnevale
Hermeneutic phenomenology, person centred care, and loneliness
Ken Hok Man Ho, and Vico Chung Lim Chiang
Why thriving and well-being ought to be fundamental goals in nursing
Marit Kirkevoid
Life and Death: Nursing responses to euthanasia
Martin Woods
Care and Compassion in Nursing
Sigríður Halldórsdóttir
Nursing's endless pursuit of professionalization
Denise J Drevdahl, and Mary K Canales
Medicine and Nursing Through the Advanced Nurse Practitioner Lens
Martin McNamara, and Wayne Thompson
The promotion of resilience in nursing: reification, second order signification and neoliberalism
Michael Traynor
Problematizing Moral Distress, Moral Resilience, and Moral Courage: Implications for Nurse Education and Moral Agency
Pamela J Grace
Equality, equity, and distributional justice in nursing: agism and other impediments
Michael Igoumenidis, and Evridiki Papastavrou
Avoiding the Triumph of Emptiness: The Threats of Educational Fundamentalism and Anti-Intellectualism in Nursing Education
Louise Racine, and Helen Vandenberg
Who knew? Towards a sociology of ignorance in nursing.
Amélie Perron
Self-sacrifice in nursing: Taboo or valuable reality?
Inge van Nistelrooij
Is there a personal responsibility for health?
M Murat Civaner
Care and Its Entanglements
Holly Symonds-Brown, and Harkeert Judge, and Christine Ceci
Rethinking Holism: Expanding the Lens from Patient Experience to Human Experience
Jason A Wolf, and Mustafa M Bodrick, and Freda DeKeyser Ganz
Empathy and Dialogue in Nursing Care
Fredrik Svenaeus
Navigating the Edges of Critical Justice Theory through the Logic of Nursing
Barbara Pesut
Anxiety and moral courage: The path to authentic nursing?
Dawn Freshwater
Freedom of speech as a philosophy of nursing
Roger Watson
Using Philosophical Inquiry to Dismantle Dominant Thinking in Nursing about Race and Racism
Annette J Browne, and Colleen Varcoe, and Lydia Wytenbroek, and Ismalia De Sousa, and Chloe Crosschild
Perpetuating the whiteness of nursing: Enculturation and nurse education
Debra Jackson
What can queers teach us about nursing ethics?
Maurice Nagington
No as an Act of Care: A Glossary for Kinship, Care Praxis, and Nursings Radical Imagination
Jessica Dillard-Wright, and Favorite Iradukunda, and Ruth De Souza, and Claire Valderama-Wallace
Phenomenology and nursing
Dan Zahavi
Is there anyone here who has a genuine medical problem? Health, illness, and Aristotle
Peter Allmark
Concept analysis
John Paley
Epistemic injustice and vulnerability
Havi Carel
A process philosophy perspective on the relationality of nursing and leadership
Miriam Bender
Technology and nursing
Olga Petrovskaya
Teaching and Learning Clinical Reasoning: Maximizing Human Intelligence, Expert Clinical Reasoning, Scientific Knowledge, and Decision-Making Supports
Philosophy offers a means of unpacking and grappling with important questions and issues relevant to nursing practice, research, scholarship, and education. By engaging in these discussions, this Handbook provides a gateway to new understandings of nursing. The Handbook, which is split loosely into seven sections, begins with a foundational chapter exploring philosophy's relationship to and with nursing and nursing theory. Subsequent sections thereafter examine a wide range of philosophic issues relevant to nursing knowledge and activity. Philosophy and nursing, philosophy and science, nursing theory Nursing's ethical dimension is described Philosophic questions concerning patient care are investigated Socio-contextual and political concerns relevant to nursing are unpacked Contributors tackle difficult questions confronting nursing Difficulties around speech, courage, and race/otherness are discussed Philosophic questions pertaining to scholarship, research, and technology are addressed International in scope, this volume provides a vital reference for all those interested in thinking about nursing, whether students, practitioners, researchers, or educators.
