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UNINA9910779805803321 |
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Titolo |
Migrants, minorities, and health [[electronic resource] ] : historical and contemporary studies / / edited by Lara Marks and Michael Worboys |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1997 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-83205-2 |
1-280-33625-0 |
9786610336258 |
0-203-20817-X |
0-203-29683-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in the social history of medicine |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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MarksLara <1963-> |
WorboysMichael <1948-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Immigrants - Health and hygiene - Australia - History |
Minorities - Health and hygiene - Australia - History |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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