Concept Analysis in Nursing - A New Approach

In Concept Analysis in Nursing: A New Approach, Paley provides a critical analysis of the philosophical assumptions that underpin nursing's concept analysis methods. He argues, provocatively, that there are no such things as concepts, as traditionally conceived.

List of contents

1.Aims, methods, conventions Part I Concepts 2.Concepts, words and pictures 3.‘A noun is a naming word.’ Discuss 4.Referring without identifying or describing 5.‘The concept of…’ 6.Must there be concepts? 7.Wittgenstein, language and method Part II Words 8.‘Hope’: the basic schema 9.‘Hope’: the mass noun 10.‘Hope’: negations, modals and modifiers 11.‘Hope’ in health care 12.‘Moral distress’

About the author

John Paley was formerly a senior lecturer at the University of Stirling, and is now a visiting fellow at the University of Worcester, UK. He writes on topics related to philosophy and health care, including research methods, evidence, complexity, spirituality, the post-Francis debate about compassion, and nursing ethics.

Summary

In Concept Analysis in Nursing: A New Approach, Paley provides a critical analysis of the philosophical assumptions that underpin nursing’s concept analysis methods. He argues, provocatively, that there are no such things as concepts, as traditionally conceived.

Product details

• Authors: John Paley, John (University of Worcester Paley, Paley John
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9780367705947
• ISBN: 978-0-367-70594-7
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Routledge Advances in Research Methods
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Public Health, Nursing, MEDICAL / Nursing / General, MEDICAL / Nursing / Research & Theory, Personal & public health, Nursing research & theory, Personal and public health / health education, Nursing research and theory