Migrants, minorities, and health : historical and contemporary studies - Marks, Lara, 1963-; Worboys, Michael, 1948- (London ; New York : Routledge, 1997)
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION / Lara Marks -- chapter 2 DISEASE, DEFILEMENT, DEPRAVITY: TOWARDS AN AESTHETIC ANALYSIS OF HEALTH -- Desmond Manderson / The case of the Chinese in nineteenth-century Australia -- chapter 3 MIGRATION, PROSTITUTION AND MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY MALAYA / Lenore Manderson -- chapter 4 RACIALISM AND INFANT DEATH Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century socio- medical discourses on African American infant mortality -- Richard Meckel / Late nineteenth- and early twentieth- century socio-medical discourses on African American infant mortality -- chapter 5 A DISEASE OF CIVILISATION -- Mark Harrison and Michael Worboys / Tuberculosis in Britain, Africa and India, 1900-39 -- chapter 6 GOVERNMENT POLICY AND THE HEALTH STATUS OF ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY, 1945-72 / Lindsey Harrison -- chapter 7 FROM VISIBLE TO INVISIBLE -- Liam Greenslade, Moss Madden and Maggie Pearson / The problem of the health of Irish people in Britain -- chapter 8 ETHNIC ADVANTAGE -- Lara Marks and Lisa Hilder / Infant survival among Jewish and Bengali immigrants in East London, 1870-1990 -- chapter 9 GREEK MIGRANTS IN AUSTRALIA -- John Powles / Surviving well and helping their hosts -- chapter 10 SOUTHERN ITALIAN IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY AND THE PERENNIAL PROBLEM OF MEDICALISED PREJUDICE / Alan M. Kraut -- chapter 11 THE POWER OF THE EXPERTS -- John Eade / The plurality of beliefs and practices concerning health and illness among Bangladeshis in contemporary Tower Hamlets, London -- chapter 12 WHO'S DEFINITION? -- Maggie Brady, Stephen Kunitz and David Nash / Australian Aborigines, conceptualisations of health and the World Health Organisation.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Keywords: Immigrants -- Health and hygiene -- Australia -- History; Minorities -- Health and hygiene -- Australia -- History; Prejudices; Minorities; Ethnic groups; Stereotypes (Social psychology); Disease -- ethnology; Emigration and Immigration -- history; Stereotyping; Prejudice; Minority Groups; Ethnicity; Immigrants -- Santé et hygiène -- Australie -- Histoire; Minorités -- Santé et hygiène -- Australie -- Histoire; Préjugés.; Minorités.; Groupes ethniques; Stéréotypes.; minorities; ethnic groups; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; Prejudices; Minorities; Ethnic groups; Immigrants -- Health and hygiene; Minorities -- Health and hygiene; Australia; Immigranten; Minderheden; Ethische aspecten; Gezondheid; History; Geschiedenis (vorm)