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Acknowledgments xv
Preface: Opening-Entering: A New Beginning Almost Thirty
Years Later xvii
Interlude xxi

PART I. BACkgROuND 1

PART II. CARINg SCIENCE AS CONTExT 13
Chapter 1. Nursing: The Philosophy and Science of Caring 15
• Basic Assumptions of Caring Science 17
• Premises of Caring Science 18
• Working Definition of Caring Science 18
• Caring: Science-Arts-Humanities 19

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