Stephen Joshua Kunitz, M.D., Ph.D.

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Research: History and sociology of medicine, historical and contemporary comparative demography and epidemiology.

Broadly my research has been on several related topics perhaps best described as the sociology of medical knowledge, the history of medicine, and the relationship between social change and morbidity and mortality. In the first area, I have done work on changing ideas of disease causality and classification in medicine and public health, and on the social determinants of differing concepts of disease. In the second, I have done work on the causes of mortality decline in Europe, the impact of Europeans on the health of non-Europeans, and numerous field studies among American Indians on changing disease patterns and on the causes and consequences of alcohol use and abuse.

Current Appointments

• Professor Emeritus - Department of Community and Preventive Medicine (SMD)

Education
PhD Sociology	Yale University	1970
PhD Sociology	Yale University	1970
MA Medical Specialties, Oth	Yale University	1968
MA Medical Specialties, Oth	Yale University	1968
MD Medicine	Univ Rochester Sch Med/Dent	1964
MD Medicine	University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry	1964
BA Foreign Language Or Lit	Yale University	1960
BA Foreign Language Or Lit	Yale University	1960

Recent Journal Articles
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Kunitz SJ. "Ethics in public health research: changing patterns of mortality among American Indians." American journal of public health. 2008; 98(3):404-11. Epub 2008 Jan 30.
Kunitz SJ. "Risk factors for polydrug use in a Native American population." Substance use & misuse. 2008; 43(3-4):331-9.
Kunitz SJ. "A case of old wine in re-labeled bottles? A commentary on Aronowitz." Social science & medicine (1982). 2008; 67(1):10-3; discussion 20-22. Epub 2008 Mar 25.
Kunitz SJ. "Commentary: Comments on the diversity in associations between community social capital and health." International journal of epidemiology. 2008; 37(6):1393-4. Epub 2008 Sep 23.
Korda RJ; Butler JR; Clements MS; Kunitz SJ. "Differential impacts of health care in Australia: trend analysis of socioeconomic inequalities in avoidable mortality." International journal of epidemiology. 2007; 36(1):157-65. Epub 2007 Jan 08.