MS 2003-20 Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy oral history
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 2003-20
name: label: Interviewer
content: Powers, Willow Roberts, 1943-
label: Creator
content: Leighton, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1908-2007
label: Creator
content: Murphy, Jane M.
label: Names
content: Leighton, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1908-2007
label: Names
content: Murphy, Jane M.
topic: label: Topic
content: Values -- Ethnographic study of
label: Topic
content: Psychiatric epidemiology
label: Topic
content: Cultural psychiatry
creator: label: Interviewer
content: Powers, Willow Roberts, 1943-
label: Creator
content: Leighton, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1908-2007
label: Creator
content: Murphy, Jane M.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: In 1948, Dr. Alexander Leighton initiated the "Stirling County Study," a post-war longitudinal study of the distribution and amount of mental illness in a general population, and one of the first to do so within the framework of epidemiology. When Dr. Leighton retired from Harvard in 1975, Dr. Jane Murphy, who had been a member of the study since 1951, assumed directorship of the study. Dr. Murphy and Dr. Leighton also conducted numerous cross-cultural studies of mental illness, keeping anthropological ideas as central ingredients in their research.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Sound cassettes (analog)
label: Extent
content: 2 Folders
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2002
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Gift of Dr. Willow Powers.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2003-20
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Sound cassettes
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content: Oral history
label: Type
content: Interviews
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content: Transcripts
label: Type
content: Correspondence
label: Type
content: Notes
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Oral history
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Transcripts
label: Genre/Form
content: Correspondence
label: Genre/Form
content: Notes
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection is comprised of oral history interviews of Dr. Alexander Leighton and Dr. Jane Murphy, conducted by Dr. Willow Powers in 2002 and funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation's Historical Archives Program. The collection includes recordings of the interviews on 5 audiocassettes, interview transcripts, permission forms, correspondence relating to the interview, and background information collected in preparation for the interview.
relatedmaterial: label: Other Archival Materials
content: See associated ethnology collection.