Dorothea Leighton

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. Provided by Wikipedia