Research Catalog

Title

Reading doctors' writing : race, politics and power in indigenous health research, 1870-1969 / David Piers Thomas.

Author

Thomas, David Piers

Publication

Canberra, ACT : Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, c2004.

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Additional Authors

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Description

xvi, 209 p. : ill., maps; 27 cm.

Summary

An important book for anyone interested in health research involving Australia's Indigenous people and the way prejudice and ignorance in the past has seriously affected how non-Indigenous people have thought about the former's health and illnesses. Latent and overt racism has consigned Aborigines to inferior health outcomes.

Subject

• Oceanians
• Human Experimentation
• Prejudice
• History, 20th Century
• History, 19th Century
• Colonialism
• Oceanians > history
• Human Experimentation > history
• Aboriginal Australians > Research
• Aboriginal Australians > Medical care
• Medicine > Social aspects. > Australia
• Medicine > Social aspects > Australia
• Australia
• Australia > Race relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-186) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prologue : saying 'science' -- Ch. 1. Introduction : how we read doctors' writing -- Ch. 2. A primitive and dying race -- Ch. 3. A tropical race and tropical medicine -- Ch. 4. Blood and race -- Ch. 5. Collecting power -- Ch. 6. Avoiding race -- Ch. 7. Equality, politics and dissenting voices -- Epilogue : 'aboriginal health' -- App. Quantitative analysis of indigenous health in the MJA.

ISBN

0855754583

OCLC

• 56472976
• SCSB-10733808

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library