Title Body, land, and spirit : health and healing in Aboriginal society / edited by Janice Reid

Published St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 1982 St. Lucia : University of Queensland Press, c1982 c1982

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W'PONDS	362.10899915 Bod		AVAILABLE

Description xvi, 241 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm Series Studies in society and culture series Contents Part One: Contemporary crises in health -- A fundamental imbalance: aboriginal ill-health / Jack Waterford -- Family planning: a post-contact problem / Gillian Cowlishaw -- Child health and child care in a desert community, 1970-1971 / Annette Hamilton -- / Defiance or depair? petrol-sniffing in an aboriginal community / Maggie Brady and Rodney Morice -- Part Two: Medicine and health: the traditional systems -- Ten fish for one man: some Anbarra attitudes towards food and heatlh / Betty Meehan -- Sickness and health in western Arnhem land: a traditional perspective / Catherine H. Berndt -- Psychiatric and anthropological interpretations of "aberrant" behaviour in an aboriginal community / David Biernoff -- "Bush medicines": the pharmacopoeia of the Yolngu of Arnhem Land / Neville Scarlett, Neville White and Janice Reid -- Part Three: Medical strategies in change -- Women's changing role in health maintenance in a central Australian community / Diane Bell -- The Mabarn and the hospital: the selection of treatment in a remote aboriginal community / Myrna Tonkinson Summary Includes papers by J. Waterford, G. Cowlishaw, A. Hamilton, M. Brady and R. Morice, B. Meehan, C.H. Berndt, D. Biernoff, N. Scarlett, N. White and J. Reid, D. Bell, M. Tonkinson, which have been annotated separately Bibliography Includes bibliographies Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Health and hygiene. Aboriginal Australians -- Medical care -- Social aspects. Aboriginal Australians -- Medical care -- Social conditions. Aboriginal Australians -- Medical care. Aboriginal Australians -- Medicine. Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory. Medical anthropology -- Australia. Traditional medicine -- Australia. Attitude to Health. Health Services. Medicine, Traditional. Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. Socioeconomic Factors. SUBJECT Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 Author Reid, Janice, 1942- LC no. 81019830 ISBN 0702216593

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