Migrants, Minorities & Health (eBook, PDF)

Historical and Contemporary Studies
Redaktion: Marks, Lara; Worboys, Michael

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines a number of types of migrant and minority groups from different societies around the world. It looks at how health issues have interacted with developing ideas of ethnicity and race, and explores stereotypical views.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134832064
• Artikelnr.: 42687036

Autorenporträt

Lara Marks is Lecturer in the History of Medicine at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at Imperial College, London. Michael Worboys is Head of Research at the School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University.

Inhaltsangabe

First Published in 2004. 1 INTRODUCTION 2 'DISEASE, DEFILEMENT, DEPRAVITY':
TOWARDS AN AESTHETIC ANALYSIS OF HEALTH The case of the Chinese in
nineteenth-century Australia 3 MIGRATION, PROSTITUTION AND MEDICAL
SURVEILLANCE IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY MALAYA 4 RACIALISM AND INFANT DEATH
Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century sociomedical discourses on
African American infant mortality 5 A DISEASE OF CIVILISATION Tuberculosis
in Britain, Africa and India, 1900-39 6 GOVERNMENT POLICY AND THE HEALTH
STATUS OF ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY, 1945-72 7 FROM
VISIBLE TO INVISIBLE The 'problem' of the health of Irish people in Britain
8 ETHNIC ADVANTAGE Infant survival among Jewish and Bengali immigrants in
East London, 1870-1990 9 GREEK MIGRANTS IN AUSTRALIA Surviving well and
helping their hosts 10 SOUTHERN ITALIAN IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES AT
THE TURN OF THE CENTURY AND THE PERENNIAL PROBLEM OF MEDICALISED PREJUDICE
11 THE POWER OF THE EXPERTS The plurality of beliefs and practices
concerning health and illness among Bangladeshis in contemporary Tower
Hamlets, London 12 WHO'S DEFINITION? Australian Aborigines,
conceptualisations of health and the World Health Organisation