Esther Lucile Brown
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Esther Lucile Brown was a
social anthropologist Social anthropology is the study of patterns of behaviour in human societies and cultures. It is the dominant constituent of anthropology throughout the United Kingdom and much of Europe, where it is distinguished from cultural anthropology. In t ...
. She studied the
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while working at the Russell Sage Foundation.


Personal life

Brown was born and grew up in
New Hampshire New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the nor ...
. She never married, but had two god-daughters.


Career

Brown said that she was very influenced by
sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation an ...
to the degree that she considered the two fields to be joined. Brown studied the work of professions including engineering, nursing, law, social work and medicine and became head of the newly created Department of Studies in the Professions at the Russell Sage Foundation. At the Russell Sage Foundation, Brown was responsible for encouraging the social anthropologists and sociologists to undertake teaching and research in medical settings. Since the 1930s, Brown argued that nurses should be aware of patients' cultural backgrounds to improve care. She was asked to study the nursing profession following the nursing shortages of World War II, resulting in the publication of the report ''Nursing for the Future.'' In the 1970s Brown argued for more academic specialism within medicine, publishing ''Nursing Reconsidered: A Study of Change''. Brown studied psychiatric hospitals in the 1950s with Greenblatt and York, resulting in the publication of ''From Custodial to Therapeutic Care in Mental Hospitals'', which was influential in the movement towards community treatment of those diagnosed with mental health disorders.


See also

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Medical sociology Medical sociology is the sociological analysis of medical organizations and institutions; the production of knowledge and selection of methods, the actions and interactions of healthcare professionals, and the social or cultural (rather than cl ...


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