Fear, Trust and Aborigines: The Historical Experience of State Institutions and Current Encounters in the Health System
Troubled dynamics between residents of an Aboriginal town in Queensland and the local health system were established during colonisation and consolidated during those periods of Australian history where the policies of 'protection' (segregation), integration and then assimilation held sway...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Health and History. - Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine, 1998. - 9(2007), 2, Seite 70-92 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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2007
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Health and History |
| Schlagworte: | Political science Education Social sciences Behavioral sciences Economics Law Health sciences Physical sciences |
| Zusammenfassung: | Troubled dynamics between residents of an Aboriginal town in Queensland and the local health system were established during colonisation and consolidated during those periods of Australian history where the policies of 'protection' (segregation), integration and then assimilation held sway. The status of Aboriginal health is, in part, related to interactions between the residents' current and historical experiences of the health and criminal justice systems as together these agencies used medical and moral policing to legitimate dispossession, marginalisation, institutionalisation and control of the residents. The punitive regulations and ethnocentric strategies used by these institutions are within the living memory of many of the residents or in the published accounts of preceding generations. This paper explores current residents' memories and experiences. |
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| ISSN: | 14421771 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/40111576 |