Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Packed with such relationships between man and his bodily ailments is Human Constitution in Clinical Medicine (Hoeber; $3.50), by Dr. George Draper, Anthropologist C. Wesley Dupertuis and Dr. John Lyon Caughey Jr. of Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital.* Material for the book was gathered from the hospital's unique Constitution Clinic, founded in 1916. To find its facts the clinic uses Sheldon's system of calculating body build (TIME, July 15, 1940), rates each patient for androgyny (male and female characteristics), photographs patients nude (of 2,500, only four have refused), performs needed laboratory tests and interviews each...
...facts of Veblen's life will not be found in Duffus' graceful, charming, nostalgic memoir. A farm boy from a Norwegian settlement in Minnesota, Veblen had the habit of looking at the U.S. economic and social systems as though he were an aloof and coldly calculating anthropologist from another culture. He wrote sardonic books about the workings of the U.S. economy in a style that seems "desperately accurate" to some, a sort of elephantine, academic pig Latin to others...
...make triply sure, the police took the bones to Anthropologist Wilton Marion Krogman of the University of Chicago. The professor measured them, made a few calculations, then surprisingly announced that the woman and the dentist were both wrong: the skeleton was no Negro's but that of a middle-aged white laborer. Shortly afterward the missing Negro turned up alive...
...Anthropologist Margaret Mead, 41 (Growing Up in New Guinea...
...MANY BONES - Ruth Sawtell Wallis - Dodd, Mead ($2). How the disappearance of a domineering widow, who browbeat the staff of a Midwestern museum, led to grisly discoveries by a young anthropologist and his pretty assistant. A mixture of shivers and sprightly talk...