For graduate-level nursing theory courses, and/or professional issues courses. Designed to help students understand the development and evaluation of the theoretical base for nursing practice research and education, this text familiarizes students with a broad range of nursing models and their roles in nursing practice. with an emphasis on the application of nursing theories for the advanced practice student, strong attention is given to the relevance of nursing theory to nursing classification systems that are used in advanced practice.

In this paper, I explore the problematic relation between sex and gender in parallel with the equally problematic relation between nature and science. I also offer a provisional analysis of the political dynamics that work to polarize both kinds of discourse, focusing especially on their intersection (i.e., on discussions of gender and science), and on that group most directly affected by all of the above considerations (i.e., women scientists).