Ethnic Medicine in the Southwest

Edward H. Spicer, University of Arizona Professor of Anthropology, for more than thirty years has dedicated much of his time to teaching, research and writing on the American Indians of the Southwest. He is past president of the American Anthropological Association and has received numerous honors including the 1976 Malinowski Award given by the Society for Applied Anthropology. Loudell F. Snow, Assistant Professor Anthropology and Community Medicine at Michigan State University, did her study of medical traditions in a Black neighborhood with support from the Danforth Foundation. Margarita Artschwager Kay, a former public health nurse, has worked with Spanish-speaking people in New York, California, Mexico, Arizona, and New Mexico. In 1972, she became Assistant Professor of Nursing and Associate in Community Medicine at the University of Arizona. Mary Elizabeth Shutler began her research on the Yaquis in 1958. She also has done extensive fieldwork among the New Hebrides island people. In 1975, she became Chairman of the Anthropology Department at Washington State University. Eleanor Bauwens, Assistant Professor of Nursing at the University of Arizona, is author of the Anglo study. She is a member of the Committee for Nursing and Anthropology and the Society for Medical Anthropology.