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dc.contributor.authorHaebich, Anna
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T12:15:46Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T12:15:46Z
dc.date.created2013-03-26T20:00:50Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationHaebich, Anna. 2012. Aboriginal Assimilation and Nyungar Health 1948-72. Health and History. 14 (2): pp. 140-161.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19789
dc.identifier.doi10.5401/healthhist.14.2.0140
dc.description.abstract

The policy of assimilation in mid-twentieth-century Australia holds a major place in the history of Aboriginal health. For the first time Australian governments endorsed equal citizenship for Aboriginal people with full access to mainstream medical and hospital services previously denied to them. After decades of neglect Aboriginal families could look forward to better health. Politicians were convinced that disparities in Aboriginal health would be readily assimilated into the profile of the general population. However, this case study of assimilation’s mainstreaming of health services for Nyungar people in Western Australia demonstrates that the outcome was a mix of significant advances and enduring legacies of discrimination. Improvements were frustrated by endemic racism, contested understandings of assimilation, and the government’s failure to meet its promises. A consequence was a legacy of suspicion and anxiety that continues to impact adversely on Nyungar health today.

dc.publisherAustralian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine
dc.subjectNyungar people
dc.subjectAssimilation
dc.subjectAboriginal health
dc.subjectAboriginal medical services
dc.titleAboriginal Assimilation and Nyungar Health 1948-72
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume14
dcterms.source.number2
dcterms.source.startPage140
dcterms.source.endPage161
dcterms.source.issn1442-1771
dcterms.source.titleHealth and History
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curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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