Katherine A. Dettwyler is an anthropologist well-known for her research on breastfeeding and weaning from cross-cultural and evolutionary perspectives. She received her Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington in 1985, and is the author of the Margaret Mead Award-winning Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa (Waveland Press, 1993/2013). In 2012, she was given research access to seven ledgers from the Delaware State Hospital dating between 1894 and 1920. First, she converted the hand-written admission and medical information they contained – over 3,000 individuals – into a searchable database, now available through the Delaware Public Archives (https://archives.delaware.gov/). She then set out to explore in more detail the most interesting cases from the ledgers. This book is the result of that research. She is the wife of Steven P. Dettwyler, Ph.D., and together they are the parents of three remarkable adult children. She is currently working on a biography of Marjorie O’Connell Shearon.
Remembering Farnhurst
Stories from the Delaware State Hospital 1894-1920
by Katherine A. Dettwyler

Remembering Farnhurst
Stories from the Delaware State Hospital 1894-1920
by Katherine A. Dettwyler
Published Sep 12, 2019
629 Pages
Genre: MEDICAL / Mental Health