Esther Lucile Brown; Study Changed Nursing Education

Esther Lucile Brown, 92, a social anthropologist whose landmark 1948 study “Nursing for the Future,” was credited with major changes in nursing education and service. In a series of three books she emphasized the importance of individual attention to patients while suggesting that nursing schools be administered and financed by institutions of higher learning, a common practice today. Before and during World War II she helped place scores of refugees from Nazi Germany in American universities. In San Francisco on July 6.