Can I read Reading Doctors' Writing : Race, Politics, and Power in Indigenous Health Research, 1870-1969 on EtoBox?

Reading Doctors' Writing : Race, Politics, and Power in Indigenous Health Research, 1870-1969 by David Piers Thomas; Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Reading Doctors' Writing : Race, Politics, and Power in Indigenous Health Research, 1870-1969 about?

Reading doctors’ writing is an important book for every Australian whoreads or writes health research about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanderpeoples. The way researchers write about Indigenous peoples in medicaljournals matters. These representations have influenced the way allAustralians — Indigenous and non-Indigenous — think about Indigenouspeoples and their health and illnesses.Repeatedly labelled as an inferior race, many Indigenous peoples’ liveshave been diminished. Access to good health care was considered onlyminimally important because most doctors read, wrote and believed thatthe demise of the Aboriginal race was inevitable. Medical representationsof Indigenous people as passive, powerless victims facilitated the denialof their chance to have a say in their own future.Reading doctors’ writing is not just a story about medical progress. Medicalresearch was influenced by the politics of colonialism; the nationalistpolitics associated Federation; and most importantly by the politics ofrace, racism and anti-racism. This social and political colonial contextrendered these past representations of Indigenous people plausible toearlier medical readers — but not inevitable.Th

Who reads Reading Doctors' Writing : Race, Politics, and Power in Indigenous Health Research, 1870-1969?

Author

David Piers Thomas; Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Publisher

Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781922059529

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Medical, Health & Fitness