Counting, health and identity
Subtitle: a history of aboriginal health and demography in Western Australia and Queensland, 1900-1940
By: Gordon Briscoe.
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Canberra, ACT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians -- Health and hygiene -- Australia -- Queensland -- History.; Torres Strait Islanders -- Health and hygiene -- Australia -- Queensland -- History.; Aboriginal Australians -- Health and hygiene -- Australia -- Western Australia -- History.; Torres Strait Islanders -- Health and hygiene -- Australia -- Western Australia -- History.; Aboriginal Australians -- Medical care -- Australia -- Queensland -- History.; Torres Strait Islanders -- Medical care -- Australia -- Queensland -- History.; Aboriginal Australians -- Medical care -- Australia -- Western Australia -- History.; Torres Strait Islanders -- Medical care -- Australia -- Western Australia -- History.
Description: "Prior to European colonisation of Australia, Australia's indigenous peoples had their own notions of identity, health and well-being. Their ideologies of health, however, failed to cope with the catastrophic new infections and diseases introduced by the colonisers. The promise of western medicine also neither solved nor offered respite to these often rampant and ravaging diseases." "Counting, Health and Identity investigates indigenous and colonist thinking, ideologies and responses to disease and health, particularly as they manifest in demographic dilemmas in Western Australia and Queensland, from 1900 to 1940." "Briscoe's investigation of this period blasts open same of the blockages historians may face in presenting a 'balanced' view of Australian history, freeing the flow of intellectual thought in response to Aboriginal and Australian history."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 348-378) and index.