Foreword / Hugh R. Leavell
Contents
Introduction: Understanding the Community
Scope and Purpose of the Book
Organization of the Cases
Part I. Reeducating the Community
Case 1. A Comprehensive Health Program Among South African Zulus / John Cassel
Case 2. Mental Health Education in a Canadian Community / John Cumming and Elaine Cumming
Case 3. Water Boiling in a Peruvian Town / Edward Wellin
Part II. Reaction to Crises
Case 4. Medicine and Faith in Rural Rajasthan / G. Morris Carstairs
Case 5. A Cholera Epidemic in a Chinese Town / Francis L. K. Hsu
Case 6. Diphtheria Immunization in a Thai Community / L. M. Hanks, Jr., Jane R. Hanks, and Others
Part III. Sex Patterns and Population Problems
Case 7. Birth Control Clinics in Crowded Puerto Rico / J. Mayone Stycos
Case 8. Abortion and Depopulation on a Pacific Island / David M. Schneider
Part IV. Effects of Social Segmentation
Case 9. Western Medicine in a Village of Northern India / McKim Marriott
Case 10. An Alabama Town Surveys Its Health Needs / Solon T. Kimball
Case 11. A Mental Health Project in a Boston Suburb / Kaspar D. Naegele
Part V. Vehicles of Health Administration
Case 12. The Clinical Team in a Chilean Health Center / Ozzie G. Simmons
Case 13. A Community Improvement Project in Brazil / Kalervo Oberg and Jose Arthur Rios
Case 14. A Medical Care Program in a Colorado County / Lyle Saunders and Julian Samora
Part VI. Combining Service and Research
Case 15. Medicine and Politics in a Mexican Village / Oscar Lewis
Case 16. A Nutritional Research Program in Guatemala / Richard N. Adams
Review of Concepts and Contents
Contributors
Index