Reading Doctors' Writing

Race, Politics and Power in Indigenous Health Research 1870-1969

By: David Piers Thomas

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Paperback | 1 December 2004

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Reading doctors' writing is a book for every Australian who reads or writes health research about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Medical research has been influenced by the politics of colonialism, the nationalist politics associated with Federation, and most importantly, by the politics of race, racism and anti-racism. Reading doctors' writing invites those involved in Indigenous health research to confront rather than evade the history and politics of their work.

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David Piers Thomas is an honorary fellow at the school of population health at Melbourne University.

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This book is a welcome addition to the Indigenous health literature, particularly the relationship between health and history...This book, or chapters of it, would add to most reading lists of subjects engaged in Aboriginal health, Australian history, and research ethics and practice across a range of disciplines. -- Shaun Ewen, VicHealth Koori Health, Research & Community Development Unit, 2006

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Non-Fiction Medicine Medicine in General Health Systems & Services Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Physical Anthropology Medical Sociology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Figures	p. x
Abbreviations	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Prologue: Saying 'science'	p. xiv
Introduction: How we read doctors' writing	p. 1
A primitive and dying race	p. 11
A tropical race and tropical medicine	p. 29
Blood and race	p. 51
Collecting power	p. 68
Avoiding race	p. 90
Equality, politics and dissenting voices	p. 111
Epilogue: 'Aboriginal health'	p. 133
Quantitative analysis of Indigenous health in the MJA	p. 137
Notes	p. 144
Bibliography	p. 167
Index	p. 187
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