Nursing Ethics, 1880s to the Present

*** Awarded first place in the 2024 AJN Book of the Year Award in History and Public Policy ***

This important text draws on decades of research, arguing that modern nursing germinated and grew an ethics from its own native soil, which is rich, fulsome, and philosophically informed, grounded in the tradition and practice of nursing.

It is an ethics with a positive agenda for the good nurse, a good s...