The People's Health: medicine and anthropology in a Navajo community.

New York:: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1970., 1970. 8vo. Cloth, dust-jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR KURT DEUSCHLE [not stated, but inscribed to Arthur Frank, who is not named in the inscription]. Very good. First edition, hardcover issue. Adair and Deuschle recount their experiences, problems, and conclusions, in the Navajo-Cornell Field Health Research Project, to aid in improving health for the Navajo people. / John Adair was a professor of anthropology San Francisco State College, known for his studies of Navaho culture. Dr. Adair, a native of Memphis, worked with the Navajo and also with the Zuni for more than four decades. He wrote about and photographed many aspects of their culture. / Dr. Kurt W. Deuschle was a leader in creating medical school programs in community medicine, teaching that understanding local culture is a necessity when providing health care in rural and poor areas. A professor emeritus at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Dr. Deuschle began his career in 1952 with the Public Health Service in Fort Defiance, Ariz. As head of the tuberculosis program at the Navajo Medical Center, he recognized that disease could be prevented most effectively by combining Western and Navajo medical practices and by involving health workers from the community. – NYT, Obituary, by Stuart Lavietes, March 2, 2003.