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Reflective Assent In Basic Care

A Study in Nursing Ethics

By Kersti Malmsten
September 1999
Uppsala University
ISBN: 91-554-4451-2
272 Pages
$52.00 paper original


This is a study in nursing ethics. It discusses ethics in relation to the practice of basic care in nursing. The practice of basic care and related knowledge are often understood as tacit knowledge, a kind of familiarity-knowledge that often has been neglected by philosophical scrutiny.

Sociology; Ethics
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis Uppsala Studies in Social Ethics 24