Publisher's Synopsis
This edition retains the features which made the original a ‘best seller’ with additional material in the hope that this expands the book’s applicability. In addition to reviewing
and subsequently updating the material of the original text,
two further examples of approaches to critique along with examples have been added.
The additional chapter on how to critique research as part of the work of
preparing a dissertation arose in response to the requests of students and adds
further applicability to critiquing per se. The chapter on European psychiatric
nursing research is a specific attempt to acknowledge and respond to trends in
global health and international nursing, and not least, the increasing recognition
that to limit one’s scope to a particular country (or continent) is to set artificial
and highly limiting boundaries on knowledge utilisation and knowledge transfer.
Last but not least, Professor Kevin Gournay has written the Foreword to the
Second Edition.
