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Nursing Practice: The Ethical Issues.

Jameton, Andrew. "Nursing Practice: The Ethical Issues." In Clinical Medical Ethics, edited by H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1982.

Why this matters here

Jameton's nursing-ethics work introduced a vocabulary for moral distress under institutional constraint. The chapter uses that foundational account for the tension between knowing what care requires and being unable to provide it.