Truth, virtue and beauty: Midwifery and philosophy

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 146-153

  Parker, Judith M ^a   Gibbs, Martin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Faculty of Medicine   (Australia)

Author keywords

Midwifery; Modernity; Philosophy; Postmodernity; Tradition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LABOR; MIDWIFE; NURSE MIDWIFE; PHILOSOPHY; PREGNANCY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; BEAUTY; FEMALE; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MIDWIFERY; NURSE MIDWIVES; PHILOSOPHY, NURSING; PREGNANCY; SOCIAL VALUES; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; WESTERN WORLD;

EID: 0032151954     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1800.1998.530146.x     Document Type: Article

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