What Is a Practice Discipline?
CHAPTER ONE What Is a Practice Discipline? In responding to the challenge of relating theory to practice, it is not enough simply to argue for an “enlightenment model” which sees…
Nursing as a Practice Discipline
CHAPTER TWO Nursing as a Practice Discipline The untrained nurse is as old as the human race; the trained nurse is a recent discovery. —Victor Robinson (1946)1 The words that…
What Is Science? The Problem of Demarcation
CHAPTER SEVEN What Is Science? The Problem of Demarcation Science is very clearly a conscious artifact of mankind, with well-documented historical origins, with a definable scope and content, and with…
Philosophy of Science in a Practice Discipline
CHAPTER THREE Philosophy of Science in a Practice Discipline It is my contention that the present misuse of science by nurses, and its attendant consequences, will persist unless and until…
The Feminist Critique of Science
CHAPTER TWELVE The Feminist Critique of Science Why can’t a woman be more like a man? —Alan J. Lerner (Harding, 1987) DIFFERENCE AND SUPERIORITY This well-known question of Professor Henry…
Theory and Reality
CHAPTER TEN Theory and Reality Evolution is only a theory. It is not a fact. —State of Oklahoma, 2003, House Bill HB 1504 (Isaak, 2005) JUST A THEORY “But isn’t…
Philosophy of Social Science
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Philosophy of Social Science Perhaps social science has not yet found its Newton but the conditions are being created in which such a genius could arise. —Peter Winch…
The Scientific Revolution
CHAPTER FIVE The Scientific Revolution History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we…
Maternal–Child Nursing: Obstetrics
215CHAPTER 8 Maternal–Child Nursing: Obstetrics Tonya A. Schneidereith Arguably, nurses working in the field of obstetrics must have a greater depth and breadth of genetic knowledge over any other…
Maternal–Child Nursing: Pediatrics
289CHAPTER 9 Maternal–Child Nursing: Pediatrics Tonya A. Schneidereith The physical manifestations of genetic disorders are frequently identified first in infants and children, presenting as either obvious external malformations or…
