TY - BOOK AU - Meleis, Afaf Ibrahim. AU - ED - ED - ED - ED - TI - : development and progress SN - 0-7817-5767-3 (alk. paper) SN - 2 PY - 2005///.;copyright 200546 CY - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania PB - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins KW - KW - 2 KW - 0 KW - 6 KW - 20 KW - Philosophy KW - Nursing;Nursing Theory N1 - Includes bibliographical references (515-705) and indexes; Theory: who needs it... what is it? -- On the way to theoretical nursing -- From can't to Kant -- Toward the development of the discipline of nursing -- Nursing perspective -- The domain of nursing knowledge -- Bedpans and Spinoza -- Patterns of knowing -- Hypatia, Hatshepsut, and nurses as scholars -- Nursing theory -- Strategies for concept development -- Strategies for theory development -- A model for evaluation of theories -- On nursing clients -- On human being-environment interactions -- On interactions -- On nursing therapeutics -- Theoretical thinking and practical wisdom -- Analysis of theoretical writing in nursing -- Metatheory and theory bibliography; 5 ER -