Reading doctors' writing
Subtitle: race, politics and power in indigenous health research, 1870-1969
By: David Piers Thomas.
Contributors: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Canberra, ACT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians -- Health and hygiene -- Research; Aboriginal Australians -- Medical care; Medicine -- Research -- Australia -- Social aspects; Australia -- Race relations
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-186) and index.