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 theoryNursing’s ethical dimension is describedPhilosophic questions concerning patient care are investigatedSocio-contextual and political concerns relevant to nursing are unpackedContributors tackle difficult questions confronting nursingDifficulties around speech, courage, and race/otherness are discussedPhilosophic questions pertaining to scholarship, research, and technology are addressedInternational in scope, this volume provides a vital reference for all those interested in thinking about nursing, whether students, practitioners, researchers, or educators.
