File contains correspondence between Alexander Leighton and several different hospitals, clinics, universities, research institutions, and psychiatric associations regarding the development of psychiatric epidemiology programming.
Item consists of correspondence related to the publication of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy's manuscript. Includes correspondence between Leighton and TImothy Selnes, Ian Jeffers, and Richard Barling.
File contains correspondence with Adolf Meyer. Also includes summaries of recording instruments, synopses of psychiatric cases, a transcript of "Mental health film," and transcripts of conferences and conversations.
File contains correspondence regarding the Canadian Psychiatric Association. Also includes an abstract registration form for the CPA and a script for "A global approach to the prevention of depression and anxiety."
File contains correspondence with or about Elaine Cumming. Also contains a report on the Stirling County Study and an article by the Cummings titled "A functional analysis of a case of technological lag."
File contains correspondence with or about John H. and Elaine Cumming. Also includes manuscripts of articles by the Cummings, titled "A functional analysis of a case of technological lag," and "Wooden ships and iron men: a general statement."
File contains correspondence with or about Odd Stefan Dalgard. Also contains manuscripts for two of Dalgard's articles entitled "Social mobility and psychiatric disorder : a reevaluation and interpretation," and "Introduction of intensive mileu therapy in a traditional psychiatric unit."
File contains discussion outlines, lecture schedules, to-do lists, reading lists, bibliographies, agendas, memoranda and correspondence regarding the "seminar on wheels" lecture series. Also includes 10 photos : colour; 4 x 6 in and smaller.
File contains panel member lists, speech scripts, correspondence, and meeting minutes from sessions of the Dalhousie Social Science and Medicine Committee.
Subseries includes data for and analyses of socioeconomic aspects of Yoruba women's lives (education, migration, social class, health, children, husbands, religion, family, etc.). The 1963 data seems to be part of another study, referred to in several files as "The 1963 study on the role of Yoruba women," that either piggybacked off the Cornell-Aro study or was somehow included as a sub-project.
File contains correspondence with or about Herbert M. Davy. Also contains manuscripts for Davy's articles and reports titled "Notes concerning the Digby Municipal Home: its past and present functions and its possible future place in the community," "The interplay between religion viewed as a community and a personal sentiment," "Report on the psychiatric clinic serving western Nova Scotia for the year 1957," and "Suggestions regarding future policy and research plans for the western Nova Scotia clinic."
File contains correspondence with or about Edmund Ezra Day. Also includes "Social responsibilities of business education: a convocation address commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the school of administration," by Edmund Ezra Day.
File contains correspondence with or about Leland C. DeVinney. Also contains "A proposal for research in the development of concepts and methods for 'comparative social science'."
File contains correspondence with or about Oskar Diethelms. Also includes notes on telephone conversations with Diethelms and a CV for Arthur Lambert Jones.
File contains memos, letters, and conference discussion notes for a task force meeting for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project. Also includes a sociocultural considerations handbook by Charles C. Hughes.
File contains correspondence with or about Alice Doerr/Nangeroni. Also contains manuscripts for the articles "Community agency survey - report on field work, summer, 1957" and "Overall plan for analysis: clinic-community survey." Also includes a copy of the Digby medical practice survey and a field work schedule.
File contains correspondence with or about Bruce P. Dohrenwend. Also contains memos and manuscripts for reports and articles: "The problems of units of analysis as it applies to definition of community units and the FLS stratification of Digby County," "Classification system for community industries and occupations" and "Conceptualization and operationalization of conditions which may contribute to social organization-disorganization in the focus areas of Stirling County."
File contains communications regarding grant applications and project proposals. Also contains grant budget breakdowns and research proposals for the Stirling County Study.