Caudill was able to conduct his first major fieldwork in medical anthropology after he was invited by Yale Medical School to study the social hierarchies within the Yale Psychiatric Institute by living there for two months, as a "patient" Culture and Personality 1959, Pg 714.
Caudill was able to conduct his first major fieldwork in medical anthropology after he was invited by Yale Medical School to study the social hierarchies within the Yale Psychiatric Institute. As a condition of the fieldwork, Caudill lived as a "patient" in they Psychiatric Ward for two months, with his identity as a researcher known only to the superintendent of the hospital Culture and Personality 1959, Pg 714.