Aboriginal Children, History and Health: Beyond Social Determinants

ISBN-13: 9781138955257 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 270 str.

John Boulton;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

This volume traces the complex reasons for the disturbing discrepancy between the health and well-being of children in mainstream Australia and those in remote indigenous communities. The high rate and root causes of ill-health amongst Aboriginal children are explored through a unique synthesis of historical, anthropological, biological and medical analyses. The book considers growth faltering as an emblem of the crisis of Aboriginal parenting, why it is a moral problem for the Australian nation, and why the conventional framework of social determinants of health is inadequate.

Recenzje

"Aboriginal Children, History and Health is both an emblematic story of the frontier in northern Australia and a guide to the hidden, persisting causes of indigenous disadvantage... Every sentence of his narrative breathes intellectual curiosity and empathy with his patients in the hectic, highly coloured remote community world."— Nicolas Rothwell, The Australian

O autorze

John Boulton is Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Newcastle, Australia.