Prologue : saying 'science' -- Ch. 1. Introduction : how we read doctors' writing -- Ch. 2. A primitive and dying race -- Ch. 3. A tropical race and tropical medicine -- Ch. 4. Blood and race -- Ch. 5. Collecting power -- Ch. 6. Avoiding race -- Ch. 7. Equality, politics and dissenting voices -- Epilogue : 'aboriginal health' -- App. Quantitative analysis of indigenous health in the MJA
Summary
An important book for anyone interested in health research involving Australia's Indigenous people and the way prejudice and ignorance in the past has seriously affected how non-Indigenous people have thought about the former's health and illnesses. Latent and overt racism has consigned Aborigines to inferior health outcomes