Page 461 - alligood 8th edition_Neat

23

CHAP TER

Margaret A. Newman
1933 to Present

Health as Expanding Consciousness

Janet Witucki Brown and Martha Raile Alligood

“We have to embrace a new vision of health. Our caring must be linked
with a concept of health that encompasses and goes beyond disease. The
theory of health as expanding consciousness provides that perspective”
(Newman, 2008, p. 2).

University, Newman was a Professor at the University of
Credentials and Background Minnesota in Minneapolis until her retirement in 1996,
of the Theorist where she is Professor Emeritus. During her nursing
Margaret A. Newman was born on October 10, 1933, education career, she was Director of Nursing for the
in Memphis, Tennessee. She earned a bachelor’s Clinical Research Center at the University of Tennessee,
degree in home economics and English from Baylor Acting Director of the PhD Program in the Division
University in Waco, Texas, and a second bachelor’s of Nursing at New York University, and Professor-
degree in nursing from the University of Tennessee in in-Charge of the Graduate Program and Research in
Memphis (M. Newman, curriculum vitae, 1996). Her Nursing at Pennsylvania State University (M. Newman,
master’s degree in medical-surgical nursing and teach- curriculum vitae, 2000).
ing is from the University of California, San Francisco. Newman achieved numerous honors, including
She earned her PhD in nursing science and rehabilita- admission to the American Academy of Nursing
tion nursing in 1971 from New York University. in 1976; the Outstanding Alumnus Award from the
After holding academic positions at the University of University of Tennessee College of Nursing in Mem-
Tennessee, New York University, and Pennsylvania State phis in 1975 and 2002; the Distinguished Alumnus

Courtesy New York University, 2009
Previous authors: Snehlata Desai, M. Jan Keffer, DeAnn M. Hensley, Kimberly A. Kilgore-Keever, Jill Vass Langfitt, and LaPhyllis Peterson.
The authors wish to thank Margaret A. Newman for her contributions to the chapter.

442