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Rosemarie Rizzo Parse

PART ONE: Rosemarie Rizzo

Parse’s Human Becoming

School of Thought

Rosemarie Rizzo Parse

Introducing the Theorist

Introducing the Theory:The Human

Becoming School of Thought

Summary

Introducing the Theorist

Rosemarie Rizzo Parse is professor and Niehoff
chair at Loyola University in Chicago. She is
founder and editor ofNursing Science Quarterly;
president of Discovery International, Inc., which
sponsors international nursing theory conferences;
and founder of the Institute of Human Becoming,
where she teaches the ontological, epistemological,
and methodological aspects of the human becom-
ing school of thought. Her most recent work is
Community: A Human Becoming Perspective

(2003a). Previous works include Nursing

Fundamentals (1974); Man-Living-Health: A

Theory of Nursing (1981); Nursing Research:

Qualitative Methods(1985);Nursing Science: Major

Paradigms, Theories, and Critiques (1987);

Illuminations: The Human Becoming Theory in

Practice and Research(1995);The Human Becoming

School of Thought(1998);Hope: An International

Human Becoming Perspective (1999); and

Qualitative Inquiry: The Path of Sciencing(2001b).

Her theory is a guide for practice in health-care set-

tings in the United States, Canada, Finland,