Reading Doctors' Writing: Race, Politics and Power in Indigenous Health Research, 1870-1969

by David Thomas

Overview

Focusing on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, this chronicle goes beyond medical progress to explain how medical research has been influenced by the politics of colonialism, by the nationalist politics associated with Federation, and most importantly, by the politics of race, racism and antiracism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780855754587
Publisher:	Aboriginal Studies Press
Publication date:	04/01/2004
Pages:	209
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

David Piers Thomas is an honorary fellow at the school of population health at Melbourne University.

Table of Contents

	Figures	x
	Abbreviations	xi
	Acknowledgements	xii
	Prologue: Saying 'science'	xiv
Chapter 1	Introduction: How we read doctors' writing	1
Chapter 2	A primitive and dying race	11
Chapter 3	A tropical race and tropical medicine	29
Chapter 4	Blood and race	51
Chapter 5	Collecting power	68
Chapter 6	Avoiding race	90
Chapter 7	Equality, politics and dissenting voices	111
	Epilogue: 'Aboriginal health'	133
Appendix	Quantitative analysis of Indigenous health in the MJA	137
	Notes	144
	Bibliography	167
	Index	187

Editorial Reviews

"This book is a welcome addition to the Indigenous health literature, particularly the relationship between health and history."  —Shaun Ewen, VicHealth Koori Health, Research & Community Development Unit

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