Aboriginal Health and History: Power and Prejudice in Remote AustraliaCambridge University Press, 1993 M06 14 - 318 pages The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (1987-1991) focused attention on the behavioural dimension of Aboriginal health and the lack of appropriate services. This book is a systematic analysis of the sociohistorical and intercultural aspects of mental health in one area of remote Australia, the Kimberly. The author shows how the effects of social disruption, cultural dislocation and loss of power suffered by Aboriginal people have manifested themselves in certain behavioural patterns. The book analyses rising mortality rates from suicide, accidents and homicide amongst Kimberley Aboriginal communities and studies the economic impact of alcohol on these communities. It also considers the role of alcohol in producing violent behaviour and affecting the general level of health. |
Contents
Caduceus and Clipboard | 1 |
Guiding frames | 4 |
Methodologies | 8 |
paths and mazes | 9 |
Morality review | 11 |
Pilot community surveys | 13 |
Populationbased survey | 17 |
Fruitful digressions | 21 |
incarceration and suicide | 141 |
International Experience | 144 |
Kimberley Suicides in Custody | 145 |
LockUp study | 147 |
19571989 | 149 |
19571987 | 150 |
19881989 | 154 |
The Parental generation | 156 |
Notes | 23 |
Time | 24 |
Acts and actors | 26 |
New arrivals in an old land | 35 |
gold cattle pearls converts | 36 |
Government nomads | 47 |
Opportunity and exclusion | 49 |
Notes | 51 |
Mabarn and Medicine | 52 |
Systems in conflict | 54 |
Perceptions and policy | 57 |
Stigmatised contagions | 58 |
Leprosy | 61 |
Hospitals and beyond | 67 |
Changing fortunes | 72 |
Notes | 75 |
Mortality in a Time of Change | 76 |
The study | 78 |
Findings | 80 |
Discussion | 86 |
Notes | 89 |
Alcohol | 90 |
Setting | 91 |
Frames | 92 |
Correlates and consequences | 94 |
Quantitative studies | 102 |
Alcohol problems and impressionistic reports | 103 |
Clinical studies | 104 |
Population studies | 105 |
Aboriginal alcohol consumption in the Kimberley | 109 |
The sample | 110 |
Questions | 111 |
Results | 112 |
Summary | 125 |
Notes | 127 |
Suicide | 133 |
Definitions | 134 |
Suicide and indigenous populations | 135 |
Suicide and Aborigines | 139 |
Related issues | 157 |
Suicide and Aboriginal social integration | 160 |
Notes | 162 |
Bloodlines Violence to Self and Others | 166 |
Ritual mutilation | 167 |
Nontraditional selfmutilation | 168 |
Intentional personal violence | 173 |
Presentday Aboriginal violence | 174 |
a paradigm | 175 |
Mission boys and warriors | 187 |
Convergences | 190 |
Notes | 198 |
Issues of Identity | 200 |
Definitions and usage | 201 |
Aborigines and Aboriginality | 202 |
Levels of continunity | 204 |
Elements of change | 209 |
Adaptation and survival | 210 |
Assimilation and selfdetermination | 218 |
Consequences for children | 229 |
Anomie exclusion and powerlessness | 236 |
gambling and Aborigines | 241 |
Aboriginal gambling in the Kimberley | 243 |
Summary | 251 |
Notes | 252 |
Structures and Change | 254 |
Imposed constructions | 256 |
Imposed structures | 258 |
Imposed problems | 261 |
Imposed solutions | 263 |
development and its vicissitudes | 267 |
Attribution and allied theories | 268 |
a paradigm | 270 |
And Australian Aborigines? | 281 |
Notes | 287 |
References | 288 |
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