Book
The people's health: medicine and anthropology in a Navajo community
Appleton-Century-Crofts • New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts [1970] • Published In 1970 • Pages:
By: Adair, John, Deuschle, Kurt W., Barnett, Clifford R., Rabin, David L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In 1955 a joint field health research project was undertaken on the Navajo Reservation, sponsored jointly by the Navajo Tribe, Cornell University Medical College, and the U.S. Public Health Service. The intent of the project was to develop effective medical services on the reservation and to see how knowledge obtained from this development could be applied to other ethnic peoples in similar socioeconomic circumstances, and to U.S. medical problems as a whole. The above investigation also included a detailed discussion on various types of diseases then in evidence on the reservation. Comparisons were made on concepts of health and disease held by the Navajo, in contrast to those held by the public health physician. Given particular attention in the source are the key roles played by the 'health visitors' -- bilingual Navajos who act as assistants to the public health nurse, primarily in the collection of patient information. Their integrative roles in bringing modern medical services to the Navajo are discussed at great length in the source. The work concludes with a brief but enlightening analysis of the various working relationships involved among members of the field team (e.g., anthropologists and physicians).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Public health and sanitation
- Medical personnel
- Medical care
- Hospitals and clinics
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Morbidity
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Navajo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Physician
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- M. A. Marcus ; Marlene Martin ; 1985
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1955-1962
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1955
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Many Farms-Rough Rock District, Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] John Adair [and] Kurt W. Deuschle. With a chapter by Clifford R. Barnett and David L. Rabin
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-173)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 79110158
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians