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Migrants, Minorities & Health

Historical and Contemporary Studies

Michael Worboys editor Lara Marks editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:17th Apr '97

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How has twentieth-century medicine dealt with immigrants and minorities? The contributors to Migrants, Minorities and Health have studied a number of different types of migrant and minority groups from different societies around the world in order to examine the complex relations between health issues and ideas of ethnicity and race. The collection explores the historical origins and the contemporary power of stereotypical views—of immigrants as importers of disease, for instance, or of minorities as a source of infection in the host society. The authors show how ideas of ethnicity and race have shaped, and in turn have been influenced by, the construction of medical ideas. Challenging our common assumptions about migrants, minorities and health, this collection brings together new perspectives from a variety of disciplines. It will make fascinating reading for social historians, medical historians and social policy makers.

`Key to the success of this work is the editor's willingness to draw together essays from diverse disciplines and countries.' - Amy L Fairchild, Medical History

`The essays...help to challenge long-held assumptions about the relationship between migrants, minorities, and health.' - Amy Fairchild

`But while reinforcing common themes, the authors and editors resist simple formulations.' - Amy Fairchild

'...an important resource for historians and medical sociologists - Waltraud Ernst and Kate Reed Social History of Medicine Vol. 12, No. 2, 1999

'Provides a very solid set of case studies'. - Journal of Biosocial Science, Susan B. Hyatt

ISBN: 9780415112130

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 430g

312 pages