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.
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JOHN DRUMMOND is Senior Lecturer in Nursing at the University of Dundee, UK.
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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.