Practising virtue: A challenge to the view that a virtue centred approach to ethics lacks practical content

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 622-637

  Begley, Ann Marie ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action guidance; Midwifery; Nursing; Practical ethics; Professional conduct; Virtue ethics

Indexed keywords

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; ETHICAL THEORY; HUMAN; MORALITY; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH; PHILOSOPHY;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH;

ETHICAL THEORY; HUMANS; PHILOSOPHY; VIRTUES;

EID: 27844460525     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: 14770989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0969733005ne832oa     Document Type: Conference Paper

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