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Integral Model for Grasping Needs in Caritas Nursing

The Church says: The body is a sin.
Science says: The body is a machine.
Advertising says: The body is a business.
The body says: I am a fiesta.
Eduardo GalEano, Walking Words (quotEd In arrIEn 2005:77)

As discussed in previous work (Watson 2005), Wilber’s Integral Model
(Wilber 1998, 2001a, 2001b) provides a Caring Science/Caritas con-
text for grasping the totality of a broader disciplinary focus for pro-
viding views of the body and thus basic nursing care. In Wilber’s
Four-Quadrant Integral Model we move toward greater depth to com-
prehend multiple ways of Knowing and Being and Becoming—an
approach that integrates and includes subtle and dense matter, body,
soul, and Spirit (Wilber 1998:102). This model seeks to point toward

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