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Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

  • MS-13-86
  • Fonds
  • 1837-2020, predominant 1904-2008

Fonds contains records created and collected primarily by Alexander H. Leighton, with some by Jane Leighton Murphy. Documents span from Leighton's studies at Princeton, Cambridge, and Johns Hopkins univerities, through his government employment in World War II, and his teaching career at Cornell, Dalhousie, and Harvard. The majority of records are related to the 1961 Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project and the 1963 Study on the Role of Women, both based in Nigeria, and the Stirling County Study, based in Nova Scotia. Record types include correspondence, manuscripts, grant applications, reports, photographs and slides, medical and academic records, method and guidebooks, reviews, offprints and publications, teaching and course materials, and surveys and interview transcripts.

A sous-fonds contains records documenting the migration of Alexander Leighton's parents from Ireland to the United States and their subsequent life in Philadelphia. The sous-fonds contains extensive correspondence between extended family members over the course of a century, as well as photographs, diaries, wills, family trees, memoirs, and Alexander Leighton's personal correspondence.

Murphy, Jane Leighton

Brunetti, Pier M. / Pierre-Marie

File contains correspondence with or about Pier M. Brunetti. Also includes activity reports, the Vaucluse Study health questionnaire and summary, and a copy of Brunetti's article "Are we fostering health?: Interdisciplinary considerations on the present ecologic and human crisis."

Chance, Norman A.

File contains correspondence with or about Norman A. Chance. Also contains a manuscript written by Norman A. Chance for an article titled "Conceptual and methodological problems in cross-cultural health survey research," to appear in the American Journal of Public Health.

Cumming, John H. and Elaine

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."

Cumming, Elaine

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."

Dalgard, Odd Stefan

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."

Doerr/Nangeroni, Alice L.

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.

Dohrenwend, Bruce P.

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."

Fitchen, Janet Mathews

File contains correspondence with or about Janet Mathews Fitchen. Also includes manuscripts for articles and speeches: "Rural poverty in upstate New York: the collapse of community," and "Rural poverty in Northern Appalachia: analysis of economic patterns in depressed rural neighbourhoods."

Galdston, Iago

File contains correspondence with or about Iago Galdston. Also contains a list of consultants to the New York Academy of Medicine's advisory committee on "panic and morale." Also contains a manuscript for the article "Psychiatric disorder among the Yoruba: a report from the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project in the Western Region, Nigeria."

Gessain, Monique and Robert

File contains correspondence with or about Robert and Monique Gessain. Also contains lecturer registration forms, a manuscript for "Report on the sciences of man: can psychiatry travel?," a booklet titled "Nicolas et Antoine en Nouvelle Ecosse," and 6 photos : 4 b&w and 2 colour; 5 x 7 1/2 in and smaller.

Gessain, Robert

File contains correspondence with or about Robert Gessain. Also includes a brochure for the International Association of Students in Economics and Commerce, photocopied journal articles, and manuscripts for "Avenues to understanding man," and "Lack of HTLV-1 and LAV/HTLV-III antibodies in patients with multiple sclerosis from France and French West Indies."

Henson, Guy

File contains correspondence with or about Guy Henderson. Also includes a manuscript for "A program of rural development for eastern Nova Scotia" and a booklet titled "Non-utopian democracy and the university."

Heinrich, Max J.

File contains correspondence with or about Max J. Heinrich. Also includes a summary of Heinrich's studies at Cornell University and a manuscript for "An overview of the Stirling County and related studies."

Hiatt, Howard H.

File contains correspondence with or about Howard H. Hiatt. Also includes the article "A program in mental health in the Harvard School of Public Health" by Morton Beiser and a draft of the Harvard School of Public Health's annual dean's report for 1973-1974

Hill, W. W. "Nibs"

File contains correspondence with or about W. W. "Nibs" Hill. Also includes a manuscript for "The inter-university field training program in cultural anthropology."

Johnstone, Kenneth

File contains correspondence with or about Kenneth Johnstone. Also includes a manuscript titled "My name is legion, part III: a ten year mental health study in Nova Scotia is completed" by Ken Johnstone.

Kluckhohn, Clyde

File contains correspondence with or about Clyde Kluckhohn. Also includes 2 copies of a manuscript titled "A declaration of interdependence: a creed for Americans as world citizens."

Kubota, Shosaku

File contains correspondence with or about Shosaku Kubota. Also contains manuscripts for articles titled "A glimpse into Sartre's existentialism introduced to Japan" and "Spread of cultural movement to communities in Japan."

Kuna, Ralph

File contains correspondence with or about Ralph Kuna. Also includes manuscripts for "Cultural stress patterns and the psychopathology of Samuel Clemens" and "Hoodoo: the indigenous medicine and psychiatry of the Black American."

Lane, Anton

File contains correspondence with or about Anton Lane. Also includes a report on "Beliefs, attitudes, and behavior of lowland Vietnamese."

Millet, John A. P.

File contains correspondence with or about John A. P. Millet. Also includes a draft of the abstract for "Some note on the place of psychiatry in the study of cultural change."

Miller, Neal E.

File contains correspondence with or about Neal E. Miller. Also includes a draft for "Do we need a human research decade for cross-cultural studies of mental and physical disease, culture, personality and biology?"

Morwood, D. Gordon

File contains correspondence with or about D. Gordon Morwood. Also contains an outline for "Social and psychological factors in the care of mental illnesses - interpretations from a case study."

Pearson, John

File contains correspondence with or about John Pearson. Also contains a manuscript for "Sensations, their nature and origin: brief statement of the findings of the Dartmouth Eye Institute."

Roper, George

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.

Sal y Rosas, Federico

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."

Stromgren, Erik

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."

Taylor, Carl C.

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."

Tyhurst, James S. (continued)

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.
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