Taking responsibility: Toward an understanding of morality in practice: A critical review of the empirical and selected philosophical literature on the social organization of responsibility

Advances in Nursing Science

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Bjorklund, Pamela ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^b School of Health Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Moral practices; Moral responsibility; Morality; Social construction of responsibility; Taking responsibility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL DISEASE; MORALITY; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOLOGY;

ETHICS, NURSING; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MORALS; PHILOSOPHY, NURSING; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIOLOGY;

EID: 33646905929     PISSN: 01619268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00012272-200604000-00016     Document Type: Review

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