Migrants, Minorities & Health (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134832057
• Artikelnr.: 42686967

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