PART TWO:
Applications of
Rogers’ Science
of Unitary
Human Beings
Howard K. Butcher
PracticeResearchSummaryReferencesRogers’ (1970, 1980, 1988, 1992) Science of
Unitary Human Beings is a major conceptual sys-
tem unique to nursing that offers nurses a radically
new way of viewing persons and their universe. It is
concordant with the most contemporary emerging
scientific theories describing a worldview of whole-
ness (Bohm, 1980; Briggs & Peat, 1984, 1989;
Capra, 1996; Lovelock, 1991; Mitchell, 1996;
Sheldrake, 1988; Talbot, 1991; Woodhouse, 1996).New worldviews require new ways of
thinking, sciencing, languaging, and
practicing.New worldviews require new ways of thinking, sci-
encing, languaging, and practicing. Rogers’ nursing
science postulates a pandimensional universe of
mutually processing human and environmental
energy fields manifesting as continuously innova-
tive, increasingly diverse, creative, and unpre-
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