Bureaucrats and bleeding hearts : indigenous health in northern Australia

Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts takes you on an intimate journey into the lives of people armed with the task of ending Australian Aboriginal disadvantage in the frontier north of Australia. Taking a fresh look at longstanding issues, Lea examines the culture of bureaucracy, its need to create the l...

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Main Author: Lea, Tess
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Sydney UNSW Press 2008
University of NSW Press
Edition:1
Subjects:
Aboriginal Australians > Medical care > Northern Territory
Aboriginal Australians > Northern Territory > Government relations
Aborigines
Australia
Bureaucracy
Chemical peel
Citizen participation
Community development
Community development > Northern Territory
Dermatology
Government
Government relations
Health policy
Indigenous populations
Medical anthropology
Medical care
Medical care > Northern Territory > Citizen participation
Northern Territory
Public health
ISBN:1921410183, 9781921410185
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Summary:Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts takes you on an intimate journey into the lives of people armed with the task of ending Australian Aboriginal disadvantage in the frontier north of Australia. Taking a fresh look at longstanding issues, Lea examines the culture of bureaucracy, its need to create the look of action, how intelligent inhabitants uphold the apparatus of government even whilst they critique it, and how benevolent efforts to improve health have brought about unexpected co-dependencies and tragic failures. She paints a sympathetic yet discomforting portrait of those who, working on behalf of and for Aboriginal health, fiercely defend the ideas and principles that paradoxically reinstate the primary need for greater levels of government intervention.
Bibliography:Bibliography: p. 253-267
Includes index
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ISBN:1921410183
9781921410185