Frail flesh & blood : the health of South Australians since earliest times / Rob Linn
- Bib ID:
- 1560855
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Linn, Rob
- Description:
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- Woodville, S. Aust. : Queen Elizabeth Hospital Research Foundation, 1993
- xii, 235 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 064615978X (paperback)
- 0646159755
- 0646159771 (leatherbound)
- 0646159763 (special ed)
- Summary:
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Medical history of South Australia ; includes chapter entitled "Aboriginal health & Culture before European settlement pre-1836" (pp.1-20) discussing the Aboriginal concept of a physical-spiritual existence, the spread of smallpox among Aboriginal communities, the hazards of camping and a nomadic existence to young children, common illnesses among Aboriginal people, medical or clever men who ministered to the sick, medicinal uses of plants, and rituals surrounding birth, conception and death. Aboriginal health and welfare issues post colonization are examined in subsequent chapters.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [221]-229.
- Subject:
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- Public health -- South Australia -- History
- Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine
- Health status - Womens health - Maternal health
- Health - Treatments - Traditional - Clever people
- Health status - Public health
- Health status - Child health
- Health - Infectious diseases - Sexually transmitted diseases
- Health - Infectious diseases - Smallpox
- Health - Infectious diseases
- South Australia (SA)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Queen Elizabeth Hospital (Woodville, S.A.). Research Foundation
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1993
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