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Margaret A. Newman

PART ONE: Margaret

A. NEWMAN’S Theory of

Health as Expanding

Consciousness and

Its Applications

Margaret Dexheimer Pharris

Introducing the Theorist

Introducing the Theory

Applications

Summary

References

I don’t like controlling, manipulating other people.
I don’t like deceiving, withholding, or treating people
as subjects or objects.
I don’t like acting as an objective non-person.
I do like interacting authentically, listening, under-
standing, communicating freely.
I do like knowing and expressing myself in mutual
relationships.

—Margaret Newman (1985)

Introducing the Theorist

The foundation for the theory of Health as

Expanding Consciousness was laid prior to the

time Margaret Newman entered nursing school at

the University of Tennessee in 1959 (Newman,

1997c). After graduating from Baylor University,

Newman went home to Memphis to work and care

for her mother, who had amyotrophic lateral