Migrants, minorities, and health : historical and contemporary studies
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Migrants, minorities, and health : historical and contemporary studies
(Studies in the social history of medicine)
Routledge, 1997
Available at 12 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
How has twentieth-century medicine dealt with immigrants and minorities? The contributors to Migrants, Minorities and Health have studied a number of different types of migrant and minority groups from different societies around the world in order to examine the complex relations between health issues and ideas of ethnicity and race. The collection explores the historical origins and the contemporary power of stereotypical views-of immigrants as importers of disease, for instance, or of minorities as a source of infection in the host society. The authors show how ideas of ethnicity and race have shaped, and in turn have been influenced by, the construction of medical ideas. Challenging our common assumptions about migrants, minorities and health, this collection brings together new perspectives from a variety of disciplines. It will make fascinating reading for social historians, medical historians and social policy makers.
Table of Contents
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
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