Alexander Leighton

Mysterious Legends Of Edinburgh

Now For The First Time Told In Print

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781432682262
• ISBN-10: 1432682261
• Artikelnr.: 22981094

Autorenporträt

Alec (Alexander) Hamilton Leighton MD was a research psychiatrist who, with his psychiatrist wife, Dorothea Leighton, pioneered the study of levels and distributions of mental illness in human populations and of medical anthropology. In 1948, they designed and initiated a long-term study of psychiatric epidemiology in Digby County Nova Scotia, the Stirling County Study, which continued for several decades. During World War II, Alec Leighton served in a US Naval Intelligence unit focused on Japan, which advised strongly against deployment there of nuclear weapons. He had academic appointments at Cornell University, Harvard University and Dalhousie University. He was especially proud of his election to membership in the American Philosophical Society and of being granted, based on knowledge and competence, a license as a back-county guide in the forests of Nova Scotia.