Health and Disease in Unacculturated Amerindian Populations

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Abstract
This chapter contains section titled: The Health of Newly Contacted Amerindians Changes in the Epidemiological Structure of Amerindians after contact Some case Studies on the Consequences of these Changes How can we Apportion the Roles of Innate Susceptibility and Unfavourable Epidemiological Circumstances in Health Deterioration? Some Practical Implications of Believing Amerindian Disease Susceptibilities do not Greatly differ from those of Caucasoids Acknowledgements References Discussion References