Nursing Ethics: A Virtue-Based Approach

By Alan E. Armstrong

Book Overview

This book proposes a 'strong' (action-guiding) account of a virtue-based approach to moral decision-making within contemporary nursing practice. Merits and criticisms of obligation and virtue-based approaches to morality are explored. The author argues that in order to deliver morally good care, it is necessary to examine one's moral character.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349353167
• ISBN13: 9781349353163
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"