In the 1980s and less than 100 years after a local genocidal contact history, very sick Aboriginal survivors frequently sought help at their small, city hospital in remote Australia. The hospital doctors, the Residents, were astute about the heavy illness burden among them. At the same time their clinical relationships with help-seekers, especially a group of Reserve Dwellers, were so difficult they were often concerned that investigations and treatments were compromised by deficient history-taking. Enculturated within a culture of biomedical science, their discomfort was made worse because...