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This successful textbook on nursing science offers a comprehensive and comprehensible overview of the theoretical and methodological discussion of nursing science that no nursing student can avoid. The text is structured didactically to promote learning and encourages critical thinking and self-directed learning with study tasks, control questions, reading tips, and further updated literature, as well as examples. The fourth edition has been reorganized, revised, and updated with respect to contributions on postmodernism and poststructuralism, radical constructivism, ethical challenges, rational choice theories, gerontological nursing, implementation science, connections between nursing knowledge, theory, classifications, and the nursing process, middle-range theories, and an outlook on nursing theory development in German-speaking countries.

From the contents: Nursing science - attempt at a foundation, science - theory of science - development of science, sources of knowledge; definitions, development of nursing science, nursing science and nursing research, nursing science and ethics, currents in the theory of science, theories and theory development in nursing science, theories and models in nursing science, social science theory approaches and their significance for nursing, critical discussion of selected nursing theory approaches.