Illness is a weapon : indigenous identity and enduring afflictions /

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This book presents the everyday experience of disease in a remote Australian Aboriginal community. The book explores the factors structuring ill health, the tactics individuals use to negotiate these realities, and the ways in which sickness is invoked to construct, manage, and challenge race relati...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Saethre, Eirik
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Aboriginal Australians > Health and hygiene.
Aboriginal Australians > Medical care.
Chronic Disease > ethnology
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander > ethnology
Australiens (Aborigènes) > Santé et hygiène.
Australiens (Aborigènes) > Soins médicaux.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disease & Health Issues.
HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General
Aboriginal Australians > Health and hygiene
Aboriginal Australians > Medical care
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Everyday Illness
  • Food, Meaning, and Economy
  • Contemporary Cosmologies
  • Medical Systems and Illness Experience
  • Noncompliance
  • Imposed Empowerment
  • Closing the Gap.

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