Leighton, Dorothea Cross, 1908-
Contributed to
nt13The Navaho
The Navahobook chapter 1946
nt13Children of the people
Children of the peoplebook chapter 1947
nt13The Navaho door
The Navaho doorbook chapter 1944
nt13Elements of psychotherapy in Navaho religion
Elements of psychotherapy in Navaho religionbook chapter 1941
nt13Some types of uneasiness and fear in a Navaho Indian community
Some types of uneasiness and fear in a Navaho Indian communitybook chapter 1942
- Summary
- Dorothea Cross Leighton was an American social psychiatrist and a founder of the field of medical anthropology. Leighton held faculty positions at Cornell University and the University of North Carolina and she was the founding president of the Society for Medical Anthropology. She and her husband, Alexander Leighton, wrote The Navajo Door, which has been described as the first written work in applied medical anthropology. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Female [1][3][4][5]
- Unknown [2]
- Born
- 1908 [2]
- 1908-09-02 [5]
- Birth Place
- Lunenburg, Mass. [3]
- Died
- 1992 [2]
- 1989-08-15 [5]
- Death Place
- Fresno, Calif. [3]
- Country
- United States [2]
- Language
- English [3]
- Occupation
- psychiatrist [5]
- anthropologist [5]
- Profession
- Ärztin [2]
- Employer
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [5]
- University of California, San Francisco [5]
- University of California, Berkeley [5]
- Educated at
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine [5]
- Bryn Mawr College [5]
- Creighton University [5]
- Country of Education
- United States [5]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [5]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. National Library of Korea
- 5. Wikidata
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