Migrants, Minorities and Health
Migrants, Minorities and Health explores the relations between medicine and minorities in the twentieth century. The contributors present both historical and contemporary studies of migrant and minority groups from societies around the world in order to examine how health issues have interacted with ideas of ethnicity and race. The essays explore the historical origins and contemporary power of stereotypical viewsof immigrants as importers of disease, for instance, or of minorities as sources...
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Migrants, Minorities and Health explores the relations between medicine and minorities in the twentieth century. The contributors present both historical and contemporary studies of migrant and minority groups from societies around the world in order to examine how health issues have interacted with ideas of ethnicity and race. The essays explore the historical origins and contemporary power of stereotypical viewsof immigrants as importers of disease, for instance, or of minorities as sources of infection in the host society. They also show how ideas of ethnicity and race have shaped, and have in turn been influenced by, the construction of medical ideas.
List of illustrationsNotes on contributors1Introduction12'Disease, Defilement, Depravity': Towards an Aesthetic Analysis of Health223Migration, Prostitution and Medical Surveillance in Early Twentieth-Century Malaya494Racialism and Infant Death705A Disease of Civilisation936Government Policy and the Health Status of Aboriginal Australians in the Northern Territory, 1945-721257From Visible to Invisible1478Ethnic Advantage1799Greek Migrants in Australia21010Southern Italian Immigration to the United States at the Turn of the Century and the Perennial Problem of Medicalised Prejudice22811The Power of the Experts25012Who's Definition?272Index291
