Social theory and nursing / [edited by] Martin Lipscomb.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Accounting for knowledgeable practice / Mary Ellen Purkis and Christine Ceci -- C. Wright Mills and the sociological imagination / Gary Rolfe -- Nursing theory, social theory, and philosophy of science / Robyn Bluhm -- On cow-tapulting and raised drawbridges : an argument for strategic integration of social theory into nursing / Barbara Pesut -- Social and sociological theory : reimagining nursing's disciplinary identity / Martin Lipscomb -- Critical realism : a social theory for evidence-based nursing / Sam Porter -- Using theory in qualitative research : a realist perspective / Joseph Maxwell -- The purpose and scope of sociological theory : implications for nursing / Stuart Nairn -- Foucault, social theory, and nursing research : a critique / Kirsten Frederiksen and Kirsten Beedholm -- Contemporary political debates, social theory, and nursing practice in mental healthcare / Dawn Freshwater -- Feminism and nursing : an un/easy alliance of silences and absences / Kay Aranda -- It's all in the genre : sociological speculation and theorizing in the nursing literature / Derek Sellman -- Lies, damned lies, and stories : nursing, narrative, numbers / John Paley.