Rogerian Nursing Theory: A Humbug in the Halls of Higher Learning.

From: The Skeptical Inquirer | Date: September 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Schools of nursing at major academic institutions would seem to be unlikely places to find belief in the paranormal, crackpot scientific theories being taught, and personality cults flourishing. The emergence of pseudoscientific nursing theories, however, is cause for alarm.

"Read this!" my wife said when she came home from the start of a new term at nursing school. The book she handed me was Martha Rogers's The Science of Unitary Human Beings. The more I read, the more I thought I was the butt of an elaborate joke she had somehow put together. It was no joke, she told me. ...

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