How can we teach and practice nursing, develop knowledge, and reflect on the founding principles of the nursing discipline without explicitly considering the essential place of the body? After addressing nursing science’s disciplinary metaparadigm and its four central concepts, we suggest that this theoretical proposal is expanded to include the body as a fifth concept, demonstrating its appropriateness in linking the other concepts, namely the person, health, environment, and nursing. In this perspective, different readings of the body are thus proposed. In the variate configurations displayed, they appear as ways that lead to specific microparadigms and from which it becomes possible to identify the nature of nursing and caring, as well as the types of knowledge that are useful to teach within the nursing curriculum.