Family Nurse Practitioner: Review and Resource Manual by Blunt Elizabeth Ed

Family Nurse Practitioner: Review and Resource Manual by Blunt Elizabeth Ed

Knowing, in order to predict. It was this leitmotiv alone that Auguste Comte, in the 19th century, considered suitable for the then rapidly developing empirical sciences. This view remains unchanged until today--not only in the empirical sciences themselves, but also in the philosophy of science. A scientific theory is and should be evaluated primarily on the grounds of its capacity to correctly predict observable phenomena. The aim of predicting takes precedence over the other important aim of science, namely to produce and purposefully manipulate phenomena by technical means in the laboratory, moreover, it even includes the latter. For if scientists successfully produce and manipulate certain phenomena in an experiment, they can ipso facto predict how that experiment will evolve under certain conditions. We live in a scientifically-dominated world: The more science progresses, the more important correct scientific predictions become. To a sometimes even fa- tal extent we have made ourselves dependent on science and its results. Our scientifical-technological interventions into nature, yet also into social processes, cover ever larger spatial and temporal distances, and the consequences are ever more drastic given the increasing effort that would be required to reverse the effects--if that is possible at all. That is the reason why we ought to be very well informed about the consequences of our actions, in particular those based on science and technology.

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ISBN 13	9780979381157
ISBN 10	0979381150
Title	Family Nurse Practitioner: Review and Resource Manual
Author	Blunt Elizabeth Ed
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	American Nurses Credentialing Center
Year published	2009-04-01
Number of pages	1023
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