| Contents | Health and History, 9.2 | The History Cooperative

Volume 9 • Number 2

2007

Staff

Editorial: Aboriginal Health and History	1
Ian P.S. Anderson and Kim Humphery

Articles

The 'Colouring of the Psychosis': Interpreting Insanity in the Primitive Mind	7
Caitlin Murray

Psychiatry at the Frontier: Surveying Aboriginal Mental Health in the Era of Assimilation	22
Edmund McMahon

'They Weren't Separated': Missions, Dormitories and Generational Health	48
Brian McCoy

Fear, Trust and Aborigines: The Historical Experience of State Institutions and Current Encounters in the Health System	70
Leonie Cox

Australian Aboriginal Women's Health: Reflecting on the Past and Present	93
Bronwyn Fredericks

The Historical Context of Developing an Aboriginal Community-controlled Health Service: A Social History of the First Ten Years of the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress	114
Clive Rosewarne, Petronella Vaarzon-Morel, Stephanie Bell, Elizabeth Carter, Margaret Liddle and Johnny Liddle

The Colonial Medicine of Settler States: Comparing Histories of Indigenous Health	144
Warwick Anderson

Research Note

The Antiquity of Chronic Ear Disease in Australian Aboriginal Children	155
John E. Stuart

Exhibition Reviews

The Aesthetics of Injecting: Needles and Syringes in Everyday Life	159
Peta Malins and Meredith Kratzmann

Does Prohibition of Drugs do more Harm than Good?	164
Annee Lawrence

Book Reviews

Essay Review: Reading 'Madness': Gender and Difference in the Colonial Asylum in Victoria, Australia, 1848–1888 by Catharine Coleborne/ Edmund McMahon	170

Humanity's Mirror: 150 Years of Anatomy in Melbourne by Ross L. Jones/ Inas Kansoh	174

Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age by Harold J. Cooke/ Claire Kennedy	175

Emblematic Monsters: Unnatural Conceptions and Deformed Births in Early Modern Europe by A.W. Bates/ Katherine Walker	177

Expunging Variola: The Control and Eradication of Smallpox in India, 1947–1977 by Sanjoy Bhattacharya/ Alexander Cameron-Smith	179

Contributors	182

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