About Dwight B. Heath
Lived 1930 – 2017 (aged 86–87). Dwight B. Heath was an American anthropologist.
Dwight B. Heath (November 19, 1930 – 2017) was an American research professor of anthropology at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He published extensively in many areas of anthropology, especially on the subject of alcohol drinking patterns and their relationship to culture. Heath earned his Ph.D. from Yale in 1959, as well as his undergraduate degree from Harvard. Heath critiqued the viability of neo-prohibitionism as an effective approach to reducing alcohol abuse and consults on a diversity of issues with governments and scientific organizations around the world. Heath died in 2017.
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American anthropologist (1930- )
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Dwight B. Heath was born on 19 November 1930.
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Dwight B. Heath died in 2017.
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Dwight B. Heath was an anthropologist.
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