Exploring Ricoeur's hermeneutic theory of interpretation as a method of analysing research texts

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 112-119

  Geanellos, Rene ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hermeneutics; Paul ricoeur; Textual analysis

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; METHODOLOGY; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; PHILOSOPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; PHILOSOPHY, NURSING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0034208617     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1800.2000.00062.x     Document Type: Article

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