Madeleine M. Leininger

(1925- ) born near Sutton, Clay County, lived in Harvard and Lincoln, lives in Omaha. Registered nurse, educator, administrator, anthropologist, author, known as founder of the field of transcultural nursing in the 1960s, was instrumental in initiating the first doctoral programs in nursing at the University of Utah and the University of Washington, founded in 1989 the Journal of Transcultural Nursing, author or editor of 27 books and 200 articles, presented over 600 public lectures to academic groups worldwide. Consult Contemporary Authors-First Revision, Vols 33-36 (Gale, 1978) 508 and Wayne State University Nursing Today, Spring 1995, pp. 1-4 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald, May 31, 1998, pp. E-1, E-7 and Who's Who in America, Vol 2 (2003) 3091.

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