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UNINA9910782879003321 |
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Autore |
Lea Tess |
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Titolo |
Bureaucrats and bleeding hearts [[electronic resource] ] : Indigenous health in northern Australia / / Tess Lea |
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Sydney, NSW, : University of New South Wales Press, 2008 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (293 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Public health - Australia - Northern Territory |
Aboriginal Australians - Australia - Northern Territory |
Bureaucracy - Australia - Northern Territory |
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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 (p. 253-267) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; The Setting; Absorbing and delivering; Meeting the state; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts takes you on an intimate journey into the lives of people armed with the task of ending Australian Aboriginal disadvantage in the frontier north of Australia. Taking a fresh look at longstanding issues, Lea examines the culture of bureaucracy, its need to create the look of action, how intelligent inhabitants uphold the apparatus of government even whilst they critique it, and how benevolent efforts to improve health have brought about unexpected co-dependencies and tragic failures. She paints a sympathetic yet discomforting portrait of those who, working on beh |
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