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This volume looks at a number of types of migrant and minority groups from different societies around the world. Each chapter examines how health issues have interacted with developing ideas of ethnicity. Challenging common assumptions about migrants, minorities and health, the collection offers perspectives from a number of disciplines.

In late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain there was deep concern about the perceived physical and military deterioration of the nation, reflected in the diminishing birth rate, persistently high infant mortality, and the poor health of the working class. Many medical practitioners and politicians believed that Jewish mothers were "model mothers" whose exemplary care of their children offered a solution to these problems. Lara Marks assesses the extent to which the stereotype of Jewish mothers reflected the reality of their experience in East London between 1870 and 1939. Not only...

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In an accessible style, this book examines how biotechnology tools came to be discovered, how they are being used in medicine, and what the future of medicine could look like.