In Search of Nursing Science

M. Adelaide Nursing Chair, School of Nursing, John Hopkins University. Professor and Independence Chair, School of Nursing, John Hopkins University.

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION AND THE EMPIRICIST SCHOOL OF THOUGHT Introduction: Nursing Science for Nursing Practice - Sue Karen Donaldson Contemporary Empiricism - Sandra J Weiss Pragmatism - Christine E Kapser The Problem with the Bottom Line PART TWO: REVOLUTIONARY/EVOLUTIONARY PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Science as Tradition and Tradition Shattering - Jacquelyn Anne K Kegley Thomas Kuhn's Philosophy of Science Moving Beyond - Barbara Riegel et al A Generative Philosophy of Science Science as Problem Solving - Sara T Fry An Evolutionary Approach to the Discipline of Nursing and Nursing Administration - Cathy Rodgers Ward PART THREE: POSTMODERN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Feminism, Science and Nursing - Ruth Ginzberg The Method Question - Sandra Harding Pain: An Issue of Gender - Gayle Giboney Page Phenomenology and Science - Anna Omery and Carol Mack The Experience of Surgery - Marlene Zichi Cohen and Kenneth Norris, Jr. Phenomenological Clinical Nursing Research A Hermeneutical Human Science for Nursing - Richard H Steeves and David L Kahn Passages Through the Heart - Francelyn Reeder A Hermeneutic of Choice Critical Theory for Science of Nursing Practice - Hesook Suzie Kim and Inger Margrethe Holter Methodology for Critical Theory - Inger Margrethe Holter and Hesook Suzie Kim Critical Action Research Post-Structuralist Science - Laura Dzurec An Historical Account for Profound Visibility Severe Mental Disability? Or a Play of Wills? - Laura Dzurec PART FOUR: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCIENCE AND PRACTICE Applied Science, Practice and Intervention Technology - Anne H Bishop and John R Scudder, Jr. Science and Practice - Hannah Dean The Nature of Knowledge Science as the Predictor of Professional Recognition and Success - Luther Chrisman Epilogue: The Journey Continues