East Kimberley concepts of health and illness can be discussed within a framework of
Aboriginal cosmologies, ontologies, and relational practices. In Australian Aboriginal …

Understanding the complexity of another culture's health concerns is fraught with difficulty,
yet 'ways forward'abound. Many researchers, including Indigenous people, have recorded …

When ethnographers study indigenous healing it is becoming more common for them to
work as apprentices to indigenous healers just as many medical anthropologists train in …

summary Illness Is a Weapon presents an engaging portrayal of the everyday experience of
disease in a remote Australian Aboriginal community. While chronic Aboriginal ill health has …

This chapter discusses mental health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Peoples and the requirements for these services under Western Australian (WA) law. It …

From the early twentieth century until the 1970s Australian states enacted laws that allowed
the forcible removal of Aboriginal children from their parents. The laws further allowed for the …

This thesis addresses the question: Why has health research not improved Aboriginal
health? Exploring this question from an Indigenous perspective required the development of …

Aboriginal people in Canada suffer ill-health at much higher rates compared with the rest of
the population. A key challenge is the disjuncture between the dominant biomedical …

It is rare to find a book concerned with contemporary Aboriginal affairs that has been able to
go beyond generalisations, to incisively examine issues that are at once both simple and …

Forty years of Western medicine, 20 of them intensive, have not resulted in the
disappearance of the traditional Aboriginal medical practitioner. t The potential benefits of …