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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813741703321

Titolo

Migrants, minorities, and health : historical and contemporary studies / / edited by Lara Marks and Michael Worboys

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1997

ISBN

1-134-83205-2

1-280-33625-0

9786610336258

0-203-20817-X

0-203-29683-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Collana

Studies in the social history of medicine

Altri autori (Persone)

MarksLara <1963->

WorboysMichael <1948->

Disciplina

306.4/61/08693

Soggetti

Immigrants - Health and hygiene - Australia - History

Minorities - Health and hygiene - Australia - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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, LondonWHO'S DEFINITION? Australian Aborigines, conceptualisations of health and the World Health Organisation; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.