Migrants, Minorities & Health: Historical and Contemporary Studies

ISBN-13: 9780415112130 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 312 str.

Lara Marks;Michael Worboys;Lara Marks

Opis

Migrants, Minorities and Health explores the relations between medicine and the minorities in the twentieth century. The contributors present both historical and contemporary studies of migrant and minority groups from societies around the world in order to examine how health issues have interacted with ideas of ethnicity and race.
The essays collected here explore the historical origins and contemporary power of stereotypical views - of immigrants as importers of disease, for instance, or of minorities as sources of infection in the host society. The authors show how ideas of ethnicity and race have shaped, and have in turn been influenced by, the construction of medical ideas.
Challenging common assumptions about migrants, minorities and health, this collection brings together new perspectives from a variety of disciplines. It will make fascinating reading for social historians, medical historians and social policy makers.

Recenzje

`Key to the success of this work is the editor's willingness to draw together essays from diverse disciplines and countries.' - Amy L Fairchild, Medical History

`The essays...help to challenge long-held assumptions about the relationship between migrants, minorities, and health.' - Amy Fairchild

`But while reinforcing common themes, the authors and editors resist simple formulations.' - Amy Fairchild

'...an important resource for historians and medical sociologists - Waltraud Ernst and Kate Reed Social History of Medicine Vol. 12, No. 2, 1999

'Provides a very solid set of case studies'. - Journal of Biosocial Science, Susan B. Hyatt

Spis treści

Contributors include: Dr Maggie Brady, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Australia; John Eade, Rohampton Institute, London; Liam Greenslade, University of Liverpool; Dr Mark Harrison, Sheffield Hallam University; Dr Lindsey Harrison, University of Wollongong, Australia; Dr Lisa Hilder, London; Professor Alan M. Kraut, The American University. Washington D.C.; Professor Stephen Kunitz, University of Rochester School of Medicine, New York; Professor Moss Maden, University of Liverpool; Dr Desmond Manderson, Australia National University, Canberra; Professor Lenore Manderson, University of Queensland Medical School; Dr Lara Marks, Imperial College, London; Richard Meckel, Brown University, USA

O autorze

Lara Marks is Lecturer in the History of Medicine at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at Imperial College, London. Michael Worboys is Head of Research at the School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University.