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Migrants, Minorities and Health »

Authors: Lara Marks
ISBN-13: 9780415112130, ISBN-10: 0415112133
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: April 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Lara Marks

Book Synopsis

Migrants, Minorities and Health explores the relations between medicine and minorities in the twentieth century. The contributors present both historical and contemporary studies of migrant and minority groups from societies around the world in order to examine how health issues have interacted with ideas of ethnicity and race. The essays explore the historical origins and contemporary power of stereotypical viewsof immigrants as importers of disease, for instance, or of minorities as sources of infection in the host society. They also show how ideas of ethnicity and race have shaped, and have in turn been influenced by, the construction of medical ideas.

	List of illustrations
	Notes on contributors
1	Introduction	1
2	'Disease, Defilement, Depravity': Towards an Aesthetic Analysis of Health	22
3	Migration, Prostitution and Medical Surveillance in Early Twentieth-Century Malaya	49
4	Racialism and Infant Death	70
5	A Disease of Civilisation	93
6	Government Policy and the Health Status of Aboriginal Australians in the Northern Territory, 1945-72	125
7	From Visible to Invisible	147
8	Ethnic Advantage	179
9	Greek Migrants in Australia	210
10	Southern Italian Immigration to the United States at the Turn of the Century and the Perennial Problem of Medicalised Prejudice	228
11	The Power of the Experts	250
12	Who's Definition?	272
	Index	291