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Alcoholic cirrhosis among the Navahoarticle 1969 • Kunitz, Stephen J. et al.
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This article presents '…an attempt to use the incidence of and the death rates due to Laennec's cirrhosis as a relatively direct gauge of high alcohol intake among the Navaho…' (p. 673). Data ...The epidemiology of alcoholic cirrhosis in two southwestern Indian tribesarticle 1971 • Kunitz, Stephen J. et al.
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This article considers contrasting drinking patterns among the Hopi and the Navajo as an explanatory factor in differences in cirrhosis rates between the two tribes. The authors contend that i...Notes on some White Mountian Apache social pathologiesarticle 1969 • Levy, Jerrold E. & Kunitz, Stephen J.
Western Apache • North America > Southwest and Basin
This article is a preliminary discussion of the authors' study of 'social pathologies' -- alcoholism, homicide, and suicide -- among the Western Apache. Based on records and published material...