Dorothea Leighton
(1908-1989)
American social psychiatrist
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Dorothea Cross Leighton (September 2, 1908 – August 15, 1989) 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.
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2 September 1908
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15 August 1989 (aged 80)
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| Zodiac | Virgo |
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