1st Edition

Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Nursing

Edited By Martin Lipscomb Copyright 2024
520 Pages
by Routledge

520 Pages
by Routledge

520 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

List of contributors

1 Introduction

MARTIN LIPSCOMB

PART 1

Philosophy and nursing

2 Nursing, philosophy, and nursing philosophy

MARK RISJORD

3 On the contribution of the nursing theorists

SALLY THORNE

4 Philosophy of science and nursing research

ROBYN BLUHM

5 What is the art in the art and science of nursing?

GRAHAM MCCAFFREY

6 The knowledge of nursology

JACQUELINE FAWCETT

PART 2

An ethical profession

7 (Normative) moral theory and nursing practice

PAUL SNELLING

8 Nursing: A moral profession?

ROGER NEWHAM

9 Remembering the future: Nursing’s social ethics

MARSHA D. FOWLER

10 Nursing and morality in China: The necessity and possibility of a Confucian ethics of care 86

JING-BAO NIE

11 Islamic Humanism: Toward understanding nursing care for Muslim patients 94

MUSTAFA M. BODRICK, JASON A. WOLF, GHADAH ABDULLAH, MUTLAQ B. ALMUTAIRI, ABDULAZIZ M. ALSUFYANI, FATMA S. ALSOLAMY, AND HISHAM M. ALFAYYADH

PART 3

Patient care

12 Dependency

SIMON VAN DER WEELE

13 Pain: Levinas and ethics

LAWRENCE BURNS

14 Vulnerability and relations of care

THOMAS FOTH

15 Placebo effect and nursing

DANIELE CHIFFI AND MATTIA ANDREOLETTI

16 Collectivism, personhood, and the role of patient and family

INGRID HANSSEN

17 A hermeneutical agential conception of suffering

FRANCO A. CARNEVALE

18 Hermeneutic phenomenology, person-centred care, and loneliness

KEN HOK MAN HO AND VICO CHUNG LIM CHIANG

19 Why thriving – and well-being – ought to be fundamental goals in nursing

MARIT KIRKEVOLD

20 Life and death: Nursing responses to euthanasia

MARTIN WOODS

21 Care and compassion in nursing

SIGRIDUR HALLDORSDOTTIR

PART 4

Socio-contextual and political concerns

22 Nursing’s endless pursuit of professionalization

DENISE J. DREVDAHL AND MARY K. CANALES

23 Medicine and nursing through the Advanced Nurse Practitioner lens

MARTIN MCNAMARA AND WAYNE THOMPSON

24 The promotion of resilience in nursing: Reification, second-order signification and neoliberalism 239

MICHAEL TRAYNOR

25 Problematizing moral distress, moral resilience and moral courage: Implications for nurse education and moral agency

PAMELA J. GRACE

26 Equality, equity, and distributional justice in nursing: Ageism and other impediments

MICHAEL IGOUMENIDIS AND EVRIDIKI PAPASTAVROU

27 Avoiding the triumph of emptiness: The threats of educational fundamentalism and anti-intellectualism in nursing education

LOUISE RACINE AND HELEN VANDENBERG

PART 5

About care

28 Self-sacrifice in nursing: Taboo or valuable reality?

INGE VAN NISTELROOIJ

29 Is there a personal responsibility for health?

M. MURAT CIVANER

30 Care and its entanglements

HOLLY SYMONDS-BROWN, HARKEERT JUDGE, AND CHRISTINE CECI

31 Rethinking holism: Expanding the lens from patient experience to human experience

JASON A. WOLF, MUSTAFA M. BODRICK, AND FREDA DEKEYSER GANZ

32 Empathy and dialogue in nursing care

FREDRIK SVENAEUS

PART 6

Questions for nursing

33 Navigating the edges of critical justice theory through the logic of nursing

BARBARA PESUT

34 Anxiety and moral courage: the path to authentic nursing?

DAWN FRESHWATER

35 Freedom of speech as a philosophy in nursing

ROGER WATSON

36 Using philosophical inquiry to dismantle dominant thinking in nursing about race and racism

ANNETTE J. BROWNE, COLLEEN VARCOE, LYDIA WYTENBROEK, ISMALIA DE SOUSA, AND CHLOE CROSSCHILD

37 Perpetuating the whiteness of nursing: Enculturation and nurse education

DEBRA JACKSON

38 What can queers teach us about nursing ethics?

MAURICE NAGINGTON

39 No as an act of care: a glossary for kinship, care praxis, and nursing’s radical imagination

JESSICA DILLARD-WRIGHT, FAVORITE IRADUKUNDA, RUTH DE SOUZA, AND CLAIRE VALDERAMA-WALLACE

PART 7

Scholarship, research, technology

40 Phenomenology and nursing

DAN ZAHAVI

41 Is there anyone here who has a genuine medical problem? Health, illness and Aristotle

PETER ALLMARK

42 Concept analysis

JOHN PALEY

43 Epistemic injustice and vulnerability

HAVI CAREL

44 A process philosophy perspective on the relationality of nursing and leadership

MIRIAM BENDER

45 Technology and nursing

OLGA PETROVSKAYA

46 Teaching and learning clinical reasoning: maximizing human intelligence, expert clinical reasoning, scientific knowledge and decision-making supports

PATRICIA BENNER

Index

Biography

Martin Lipscomb is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Worcester's Three Counties School of Nursing and Midwifery (UK).