Psychiatry at the Frontier: Surveying Aboriginal Mental Health in the Era of Assimilation

'Aboriginal mental health' is a discursive formation which first emerged in the postwar heyday of Australian assimilationism, as the governmental problem of Indigenous difference was recast in normalising, psychological terms. Psychiatric interest in Aborigines grew from the 1950s onward,...

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Veröffentlicht in:Health and History. - Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine, 1998. - 9(2007), 2, Seite 22-47
1. Verfasser: McMahon, Edmund (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2007
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Health and History
Schlagworte:Health sciences Behavioral sciences Economics