File includes Alexander Leighton's paper and a written introduction by Marc-Adelard Tremblay for an address given to the Canadian Ethnological Society at Dalhousie University's Faculty Club on 24 February 1977.
File contains research notes and manuscript drafts. Also includes some of Alexander Leighton's other articles on illness prevention and community development and rehabilitation.
File contains correspondence with or about George Roper. Also includes a manuscript for "The teacher's role in relation to sociological and psychological stress," discussion transcriptions, and an outline for a case-finding device.
File contains correspondence with or about Federico Sal y Rosas. Also includes summaries of "Forms of the quackery in Peru," "The magic concept of epilepsy in the natives of Peru," and "Magic medical practices if the indigenous peoples of the Peruvian sierra."
File contains correspondence with or about Erik Stromgren. Also includes a brochure for the Postgraduate Center for Psychotherapy and a manuscript for Alexander Leighton's comments on Stromgren's "A Danish community study in preventive mental health."
File contains correspondence with or about Carl C. Taylor. Also contains manuscripts for "The role of social science in agricultural extension" and "Some principles of human relations that have bearing on extension work."
File contains a manuscript for an article on the use of the atomic bomb during World War II. Also includes relevant newspaper clippings and correspondence.
File contains correspondence with or about James S. Tyhurst. Also contains course materials, project outlines and proposals, curricula vitae, research notes, meeting transcriptions, case notes, and manuscripts.
File contains documents concerning the United Nations Conference on the Application of Science and Technology for the Benefit of Less Developed Areas. Documents include correspondence, bibliographies and reference lists, article manuscripts, and panel participant lists.
File contains manuscripts for unpublished papers: "Barriers to the care of mental illness," "Antecedents of the mental health movement in Atlantic Canada : some implications for today," "The psychobiological orientation," and "Psychiatric diagnosis in life science perspective" by Alexander Leighton. Also includes related correspondence and review feedback forms.
File contains letters concerning the book "The Navaho Door" by Alexander Leighton and Dorothea Leighton, a 1945 copy of the New York Times Book Review covering Leighton's book "The Governing of Men," a bundle of abstracts from the American Philosophical Society's AGM in 1952, a bulletin on teaching English to the Navajo, and a proposal for a retirement commemoration conference for Alexander Leighton. Also includes some of Alexander Leighton's reports and articles: "Pilot study of cultural items in medical diagnosis," "Mental health in Canada: working toward a better future," "Cornell southwestern program: a summary report on five years 1948-1953," and "Interview with the editor of a small town paper."
File contains correspondence with or about William Foote Whyte. Also contains project and study summaries, Whyte's curriculum vitae, research reports, chapter manuscripts, research proposals, research plan outlines, and papers titled "Toward a new model for social research on health in Latin America" and "Developing the national survey for Peru: notes on planning discussion."
