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In this book, I critique examples of act-centred obligation-based moral theories and I conclude that traditional versions of these theories are incomplete and inadequate for use as a nursing ethics. Instead, I argue that a virtue-based approach to moral decision-making provides a more defensible and plausible nursing ethics.
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R. Hursthouse, On Virtue Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).
T. L. Beauchamp & J. F. Childress, Principles of Biomedical Ethics, 5th edn (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).
A. Maclntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, 2nd edn (London: Duckworth, 1985).
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Armstrong, A.E. (2007). Introduction. In: Nursing Ethics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230206458_1
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