| Description |
xxvi, 303 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Prologue: rewriting self - postmodern meanings -- Sect. 1. Transpersonal nursing as ontological archetype. 1. The starting point. 2. Moving from text to margin. 3. In search of the sacred feminine: voices from the margins. 4. Deconstructing modern nursing. 5. Seeing through Venus's mirror. 6. Deconstructing modern metaphors. 7. Reconstructing nursing -- Sect. 2. Transpersonal nursing as ontological artist. 8. Beyond postmodern nursing - into the next millennium. 9. Transpersonal caring-healing. 10. The postmodern/transpersonal body. 11. The body as a sacred mirror. 12. Exercises for experiencing the transpersonal body. 13. Professional ontological competencies for transpersonal practice. 14. Reconsidering Nightingale: professional ontological competencies as advanced caring-healing arts. 15. An interlude: the Zen of bedmaking -- Sect. 3. Transpersonal nursing as ontological architect. 16. Caring-healing architecture within the postmodern/transpersonal paradigm |
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17. Unconcluding postmodern Nightingale. 18. Relighting the lamp |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Caring.
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Ontology.
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Holistic nursing.
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Nursing -- Philosophy.
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Holistic Nursing.
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Philosophy, Nursing.
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| LC no. |
99036289 |
| ISBN |
0443057443 |
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