Bureaucrats and bleeding hearts : indigenous health in northern Australia /

Bureaucrats and bleeding hearts : indigenous health in northern Australia /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Lea, Tess.
Imprint:	Sydney, NSW : UNSW Press, 2008.
Description:	xviii, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Northern Territory. -- Territory Health Services. Northern Territory. -- Territory Health Services. Northern Territory. -- Territory Health Services. Aboriginal Australians -- Medical care -- Australia -- Northern Territory. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Government relations. Medical care -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Citizen participation. Community development -- Australia -- Northern Territory. Public health -- Australia -- Northern Territory. Bureaucracy -- Australia -- Northern Territory. Health Services, Indigenous -- Australia -- Northern Territory. Government -- Australia -- Northern Territory. Health Policy -- Australia -- Northern Territory. Health Status Disparities -- Australia -- Northern Territory. Healthcare Disparities -- Australia -- Northern Territory. Oceanic Ancestry Group -- Australia -- Northern Territory. Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations. Aboriginal Australians -- Medical care. Bureaucracy. Community development. Medical care -- Citizen participation. Public health. Northern Territory.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7250342

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Indigenous health in Northern Australia
ISBN:	9781921410185 1921410183
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-267) and index.
Summary:	"This is an anthropological study of the culture of public health governance in the Northern Territory of Australia. It asks what it takes to become a helping white bureau-professional in Australias post-colonial frontier - someone who passionately cares about and resolutely strives toward improved health for Indigenous people and how their determination to help is sustained in the face of a self-declared history of failure."--Provided by publisher.

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Summary:	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 look of action, how intelligent inhabitants uphold the apparatus of government even whilst they critique it, and how benevolent efforts to improve health have brought about unexpected co-dependencies and tragic failures. She paints a sympathetic yet discomforting portrait of those who, working on behalf of and for Aboriginal health, fiercely defend the ideas and principles that paradoxically reinstate the primary need for greater levels of government intervention.
Physical Description:	xviii, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-267) and index.
ISBN:	9781921410185 1921410183