Bureaucrats and bleeding hearts
Subtitle: indigenous health in northern Australia
By: Tess Lea.
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781921410185
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians -- Medical care -- Northern Territory; Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Government relations; Medical care -- Northern Territory -- Citizen participation; Community development -- Northern Territory
Description: "This is an anthropological study of the culture of public health governance in the Northern Territory of Australia. It asks what it takes to become a helping white bureau-professional in Australias post-colonial frontier - someone who passionately cares about and resolutely strives toward improved health for Indigenous people and how their determination to help is sustained in the face of a self-declared history of failure."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-267) and index.