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

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 299 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Studies in the social history of medicine Studies in the social history of medicine. Contents 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Immigrants -- Health and hygiene -- Australia -- History Minorities -- Health and hygiene -- Australia -- History Prejudices. Minorities. Ethnic groups. Disease -- ethnology Emigration and Immigration -- history Stereotyping Prejudice Minority Groups Ethnicity 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 Immigranten. Minderheden. Ethische aspecten. Gezondheid. Australia Genre/Form Electronic book History Geschiedenis (vorm) Form Electronic book Author Marks, Lara, 1963- Worboys, Michael, 1948- ISBN 0203296834 9780203296837 9780203208175 020320817X 9780415112130 0415112133 9781134832064 1134832060 9781134832019 113483201X 9781134832057 1134832052 9781138868182 1138868183 9786610336258 6610336253

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