Looking at a number of migrant and minority groups from around the world, this book examines how health issues and the construction of medical ideas have interacted with developing ideas of ethnicity and race.

First Published in 2004. 1 INTRODUCTION 2 ‘DISEASE, DEFILEMENT, DEPRAVITY’: TOWARDS AN AESTHETIC ANALYSIS OF HEALTH The case of the Chinese in nineteenth-century Australia 3 MIGRATION, PROSTITUTION AND MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY MALAYA 4 RACIALISM AND INFANT DEATH Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century sociomedical discourses on African American infant mortality 5 A DISEASE OF CIVILISATION Tuberculosis in Britain, Africa and India, 1900–39 6 GOVERNMENT POLICY AND THE HEALTH STATUS OF ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY, 1945–72 7 FROM VISIBLE TO INVISIBLE The ‘problem’ of the health of Irish people in Britain 8 ETHNIC ADVANTAGE Infant survival among Jewish and Bengali immigrants in East London, 1870–1990 9 GREEK MIGRANTS IN AUSTRALIA Surviving well and helping their hosts 10 SOUTHERN ITALIAN IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY AND THE PERENNIAL PROBLEM OF MEDICALISED PREJUDICE 11 THE POWER OF THE EXPERTS The plurality of beliefs and practices concerning health and illness among Bangladeshis in contemporary Tower Hamlets, London 12 WHO’S DEFINITION? Australian Aborigines, conceptualisations of health and the World Health Organisation