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Health and disease in tribal societies.

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Health and disease in tribal societies.

[Book]

New York :

Elsevier/Excerpta Medica/North-Holland,

1977.

viii, 344 p. :

ill. ;

25 cm.

Ciba Foundation symposium ;

49 (new ser.)

Editors: Katherine Elliott and Julie Whelan.

Proceedings of the Symposium on Health and Disease in Tribal Societies, held at Ciba Foundation, London, Sept. 28-30, 1976.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Some characteristics of tribal peoples / Ivan Polunin -- First contact with a tribal society / Herbert Ohlman -- Field methods for the assessment of health and disease in pre-agricultural societies / Betsy Lozoff, Gary M. Brittenham -- Urgent opportunistic observations : the study of changing, transient and disappearing phenomena of medical interest in disrupted primitive human communities / D. Carleton Gajdusek -- Where did our infectious diseases come from? : the evolution of infectious disease / Aidan Cockburn -- Epidemiology of infectious disease : the example of measles / Francis L. Black, Francisco De P. Pinheiro, Walter J. Hierholzer, Richard V. Lee -- Aspects of infection in isolated communities / D.A.J. Tyrrell -- Health and disease in unacculturated Amerindian populations / James V. Neel -- The Kren-Akorore, a recently contacted indigenous tribe / R.G. Baruzzi, L.F. Marcopito, M.L.C. Serra, F.A.A. Souza, C. Stabile -- Diet and nutrition of hunter-gatherers / A.S. Truswell -- Beliefs and behaviour in disease / G.A. Lewis -- Medical practice and tribal communities / A. David Jones -- Pitfalls to avoid : the Australian experience / Isobel M. White -- The responsibilities of intervention in isolated societies / Stafford Lightman.

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Health and disease in tribal societies.

Epidemiology, Congresses.

Medical anthropology, Congresses.

Acculturation, Congresses.

Communicable Diseases, Congresses.

Ethnic Groups, Congresses.

Medicine, Traditional, Congresses.

Elliott, Katherine May.

Whelan, Julie.

Symposium on Health and Disease in Tribal Societies(1976 :, Ciba Foundation)

Ciba Foundation.

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