Migrants, Minorities & Health : Historical and Contemporary Studies.

Migrants, Minorities & Health : Historical and Contemporary Studies.

Looking at a number of migrant and minority groups from around the world, this book examines how health issues and the construction of medical ideas have interacted with developing ideas of ethnicity and race.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marks, Lara
Other Authors: Worboys, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 1997.
Series:Studies in the social history of medicine.
Subjects:
Immigrants > Health and hygiene > Australia > History.
Minorities > Health and hygiene > Australia > History.
Immigrants > Health and hygiene
Minorities > Health and hygiene
Australia
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; INTRODUCTION; 'DISEASE, DEFILEMENT, DEPRAVITY': TOWARDS AN AESTHETIC ANALYSIS OF HEALTH The case of the Chinese in nineteenth-century Australia; MIGRATION, PROSTITUTION AND MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY MALAYA; RACIALISM AND INFANT DEATH Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century socio-medical discourses on African American infant mortality; A DISEASE OF CIVILISATION Tuberculosis in Britain, Africa and India, 1900 39.
  • GOVERNMENT POLICY AND THE HEALTH STATUS OF ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY, 1945 72FROM VISIBLE TO INVISIBLE The 'problem' of the health of Irish people in Britain; ETHNIC ADVANTAGE Infant survival among Jewish and Bengali immigrants in East London, 1870 1990; GREEK MIGRANTS IN AUSTRALIA Surviving well and helping their hosts; SOUTHERN ITALIAN IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY AND THE PERENNIAL PROBLEM OF MEDICALISED PREJUDICE.
  • THE POWER OF THE EXPERTS The plurality of beliefs and practices concerning health and illness among Bangladeshis in contemporary Tower Hamlets, London; WHO'S DEFINITION? Australian Aborigines, conceptualisations of health and the World Health Organisation; Index.

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