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Martha E. Rogers
1914 to 1994

Unitary Human Beings

Mary E. Gunther

“Professional practice in nursing seeks to promote symphonic interaction between man and environ-
ment, to strengthen the coherence and integrity of the human field, and to direct and redirect pat-
terning of the human and environmental fields for realization of maximum health potential”
(Rogers, 1970, p. 122).

included an MA degree in public health nursing
Credentials and Background of the supervision from Teachers College, Columbia Uni-
Theorist versity, New York (1945), and an MPH (1952) and
Martha Elizabeth Rogers, the eldest of four children an ScD (1954) from Johns Hopkins University in
of Bruce Taylor Rogers and Lucy Mulholland Keener Baltimore.
Rogers, was born May 12, 1914, in Dallas, Texas. Rogers’ early nursing practice was in rural public
Soon after her birth, her family returned to Knoxville, health nursing in Michigan and in visiting nurse
Tennessee. She began her college education (1931 to supervision, education, and practice in Connecticut.
1933) studying science at the University of Tennessee. Rogers subsequently established the Visiting Nurse
Receiving her nursing diploma from Knoxville Gen- Service of Phoenix, Arizona. For 21 years (from 1954
eral Hospital School of Nursing (1936), she quickly to 1975), she was professor and head of the Division
obtained a BS degree from George Peabody College of Nursing at New York University. After 1975, she
in Nashville, Tennessee (1937). Her other degrees continued her duties as professor until she became

Photo credit: Kathleen Leininger, Shiner, TX.
Previous authors: Kaye Bultemeier, Mary Gunther, Joann Sebastian Daily, Judy Sporleder Maupin, Cathy A. Murray, Martha Carole
Satterly, Denise L. Schnell, and Therese L. Wallace. Earlier editions of this chapter were critiqued by Dr. Lois Meier and Dr. Martha
Rogers.

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