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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Hlavní autor: Lea, Tess
Médium: E-kniha Kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Sydney UNSW Press 2008
University of NSW Press
Vydání:1
Témata:
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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Obsah:
  • Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- The Setting -- Introducing the helping white -- The passion in policy -- The Self-replicating organisation -- Absorbing and delivering -- Learning the arts of helping -- The social life of health facts -- Manufacturing optimism, maintaining faith -- Meeting the state -- Encountering -- Suppression -- Mastery -- Being here -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index