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Having examined Maclntyre’s account of the virtues, it is clear that some of his ideas, for example, those regarding the narrative account of the self and the conception of a practice could be applied to moral decision-making in nursing practice. Therefore, this is what I shall do in this chapter.
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J. Horton & S. Mendus, ‘Alasdair Maclntyre: After Virtue and after’, in After Maclntyre — Critical Perspectives on the Work of Alasdair Maclntyre (eds) Horton & Mendus (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994) pp. 1–15.
D. Miller, ‘Virtues, practices and justice’, in After Maclntyre — Critical Perspectives on the Work of Alasdair Maclntyre (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1994), pp. 245–264.
A. Mason, ‘Maclntyre on modernity and how it has marginalized the virtues’, in How Should One Live? (ed.) R. Crisp (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 191–209.
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Armstrong, A.E. (2007). MacIntyre’s Account of the Virtues and the Virtue-Based Approach to Moral Decision-Making in Nursing Practice. In: Nursing Ethics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230206458_10
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