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- Title
People and their parts: deconstructing the debates in theorizing nursing's clients.
- Authors
Thorne, Sally E.
- Abstract
Presents debates in nursing theoretical circles which assume that holism and reductionism represent mutually exclusive paradigmatic views of the human person. Tradition of discounting reductionism in favor of holism; Deconstruction of the arguments that have come to be uncritically accepted within theoretical nursing scholarship.
- Subjects
PHILOSOPHY of nursing; REDUCTIONISM; HOLISM
- Publication
Nursing Philosophy, 2001, Vol 2, Issue 3, p259
- ISSN
1466-7681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1466-769X.2000.00067.x