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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

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."

Unpublished manuscripts by Alexander Leighton

File contains manuscripts for unpublished papers: "Barriers to the care of mental illness," "Antecedents of the mental health movement in Atlantic Canada : some implications for today," "The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.

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."

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.

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."

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.

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."

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.
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