ABORIGINAL CHILDREN, HISTORY AND HEALTH
This volume traces the complex reasons behind the disturbing discrepancy between the health and wellbeing of children in mainstream Australia and those in remote Indigenous communities. Invaluably informed by Boultons close working knowledge of Aboriginal communities, the book addresses growth faltering as a crisis of Aboriginal parenting and a continued problem for the Australian nation. The high rate and root causes of ill-health amongst Aboriginal children are explored through a unique synthesis of historical, anthropological, biological and medical analyses. Through this fresh approach, which includes the insights of specialists from a range of disciplines, Aboriginal Children, History, and Health provides a thoughtful and innovative framework for considering Indigenous health.
John Boulton is Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
ABORIGINAL
CHILDREN, HISTORY
AND HEALTH
Beyond social determinants
Edited by John Boulton
WITH GAYNOR MACDONALD, AND WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM CHRISTINE CHOO, ZEEV HOCHBERG AND RANI KERIN
First published 2016
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Names: Boulton, John, editor. | Macdonald, Gaynor (Gaynor Marilyn), 1948author. | Choo, Christine, author. | Hochberg, Z., author. | Kerin, Rani, author.
Title: Aboriginal children, history, and health : beyond social determinants / edited by John Boulton, with Gaynor Macdonald and contributions from Christine Choo, Zeev Hochberg, and Rani Kerin.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015041386| ISBN 9781138955240 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781138955257 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315666501 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: Children, Aboriginal AustralianHealth and hygiene. | Aboriginal Australians. | ChildrenHealth and hygieneAustralia. | Child developmentAustralia. | Rural childrenHealth and hygieneAustralia. | ParentingAustralia.
Classification: LCC RJ103.A8 A36 2016 | DDC 618.9200089/9915dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015041386
ISBN: 978-1-138-95524-0 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-95525-7 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-66650-1 (ebk)
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This book is dedicated to Frydis, Sunniva and Hugh.
1 Map of the Kimberley
2 Dakota Youmarie Johns, May 2013, at Mulan community beside Pakuru/Lake Gregory, with the book Desert Lake. Art Science and Stories from Paruku
3 Savanna in the West Kimberley, wet season
4 Sunrise on the cliffs of Balgo Pound, Tanami Desert
5 Baby with his mother and closely related female kin, his allo-mothers
6 Children on the way to the river at Noonkanbah after school
7 Evening activities in a desert community
8 Family group
9 Children crossing the Fitzroy River at Noonkanbah
10 Children in a community in the Kimberley
Professor John Boulton is Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Newcastle, NSW. John is an academic paediatrician, now retired from clinical practice. His undergraduate medical education was at Edinburgh University followed by postgraduate training in the childrens hospitals of Perth, Melbourne and Adelaide. He was appointed Foundation Professor at the University of Newcastle in 1980. His professional interests include growth and nutrition in childhood, population child health and the amelioration of the effects of social disadvantage on childrens health and wellbeing (Community Child Health). He holds an honorary professorial appointment within the Centre for Values, Ethics and Law at the University of Sydney with respect to his work in Medical Humanities; an adjunct professorial affiliation at the University of Notre Dame in Broome, Western Australia, with respect to his collaborative work at the Nulungu Centre for Indigenous Research; and a professorial fellowship at the Telethon Kids Institute at UWA, Perth, Western Australia, with respect to his role in Aboriginal child health research in the Kimberley. In 2011 he was awarded the Howard Williams Medal for his career contribution to Paediatrics by the Division of Paediatrics of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. In 2015 Rural Health West awarded him the prize for his Outstanding contribution to regional and remote health services in Western Australia.
Dr Christine Choo is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. Dr Choo is an historian, social researcher and social worker. Her specialty is Western Australian history, particularly the contributions of Indigenous people, missions, women, migrants and minority groups. Christines doctoral thesis in history, entitled Aboriginal Women on Catholic Missions in the Kimberley, Western Australia, 19001950, was published as Mission Girls (2001). This received the inaugural Margaret Medcalf award in 2003 for excellence in the use and application of archival materials from the State Records Office of Western Australia. She has been an expert witness for a number of Western Australian Native Title claims and with Shawn Hollbach co-edited History and Native Title in 2003. Aboriginal Child Poverty, based on research undertaken under the auspices of the Brotherhood of St Laurence and the Secretariat of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Care, was published in 1990. She has been a contract oral history interviewer for Forgotten Australians and other oral history projects of the Oral History and Folklore Department, National Library of Australia. Dr Choo was the recipient of the 1990 Archbishop Goody Award, which enabled her to explore the integration of Christianity into the lives of Aboriginal people in the Kimberley region of northwestern Western Australia.
Professor Zeev Hochberg is Emeritus Professor at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel and the Head of the Technion Citizen Science Research Center. Professor Hochberg received his MD from Tel Aviv University and PhD from the Technion. He is an endocrinologist, pediatrician and pediatric endocrinologist. He is the editor-in-chief of the Yearbook in Pediatric Endocrinology, an editor of an additional eight books, and the author of over 275 peer-reviewed scientific articles and three monographs, the latest being
