03529nam 2200661Ia 450 991045546000332120200520144314.01-280-33625-097866103362580-203-20817-X0-203-29683-4(CKB)111056485521760(EBL)166796(OCoLC)808000741(SSID)ssj0000202829(PQKBManifestationID)11201309(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000202829(PQKBWorkID)10257058(PQKB)11306449(MiAaPQ)EBC166796(Au-PeEL)EBL166796(CaPaEBR)ebr10057319(CaONFJC)MIL33625(EXLCZ)9911105648552176019960515d1997 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMigrants, minorities, and health[electronic resource] historical and contemporary studies /edited by Lara Marks and Michael WorboysLondon ;New York Routledge19971 online resource (312 p.)Studies in the social history of medicineDescription based upon print version of record.1-138-86818-3 0-415-11213-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 39GOVERNMENT 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 PREJUDICETHE 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; IndexLooking 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.Studies in the social history of medicine.ImmigrantsHealth and hygieneAustraliaHistoryMinoritiesHealth and hygieneAustraliaHistoryElectronic books.ImmigrantsHealth and hygieneHistory.MinoritiesHealth and hygieneHistory.306.4/61/08693Marks Lara1963-936528Worboys Michael1948-802196MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455460003321Migrants, minorities, and health2109595UNINA