Disease Change and the Role of Medicine: The Navajo Experience

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DISEASE CHANGE AND THE ROLE OF MEDICINE Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care General Editor CHARLES LESLIE Editorial Board FRED DUNN, M.D., University of California, San Francisco RENÉE Fox, University of Pennsylvania ELIOT FREIDSON, New York University EWARD MONTGOMERY, Washington University YASUO OTSUKA, M.D., Yokohama City University Medical School CARL E. TAYLOR, M.D., The Johns Hopkins University K. N. UDUPA, M.S.,F.R.C.S., Banaras Hindu University PAUL UNSCHULD, University of Marburg John M. Janzen, The Questfor Therapy in Lower Zaire Paul V. Unschuld, Medical Ethics in Imperial China: A Study in Historical Anthropology Margaret M. Lock, East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan: Varieties of Medical Experience Jeanie Schrnit Kayser-Jones, Old, Alone, and Neglected: Care of theAged inScotland and in the United States Arthur Kleinman, Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture: An Exploration of the Borderland Between Anthropology, Medicine and Psychiatry Stephen J. Kunitz,DiseaseChange and the Role of Medicine: The Navajo Experience Disease Change and the Role of Medicine: The Navajo Experience Stephen J. Kunitz University of California Press, Berkeley, LosAngeles, London University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England First paperback printing 1989 Copyright © 1983 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Kunitz, Stephen J. Disease change and the role of medicine. (Comparative studies of health systems and medical care) Includes index. 1. Navajo Indians—Diseases. 2. Navajo Indians—Mortality. 3. Navajo Indians—Medical care. 4. Navajo Indians—Medicine. 5. Indians of North America—Southwest, New—Diseases.6. Indians of North America-– Southwest, New—Mortality. 7. Indians of North America—Southwest, New—Medical care. 8. Indians of North ISBN 0-520-06789-4 Printed in the United Statesof America The paper used in this publicationmeetsthe minimumrequirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992(R 1997) (Permanence of Paper). © This book is a print-on-demand volume. It is manufactured using toner in place of ink. Type and images may be less sharp than the same material seen in traditionally printed University of California Press editions. For Lisa and Daniel May their love for America and Americans be ever broad enough to embrace alllands and peoples struggling for the good life. This page intentionally left blank ...