Anthropology
Dwight Heath
Professor, Emeritus, 1959 - 1994
Biography
Dr. Dwight Heath was a noted anthropologist with a broad experience and knowledge related to the social aspects of alcohol consumption.
Dr. Heath specialized in studying alcohol consumption, patterns and problems across different cultures, but particularly in Latin America and amongst North American Indians. He was consultant to the World Health Organization in the 1970’s for Chile, Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras, Mexico and Yugoslavia, and studied the feasibility of training primary health-care workers to recognize and deal with alcohol-related problems and to look at community responses to such problems in these countries.