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Author Brady, Maggie.

Title Indigenous Australia and alcohol policy : meeting difference with indifference / Maggie Brady
Published Sydney : UNSW Press, 2004

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Description 168 pages ; 24 cm
regular print
Contents 1. From civil rights to indigenous identity -- 2. The World Health Organization and constructions of difference in health -- 3. Difference and indifference in national policies -- 4. Constructions of indigenous drinking -- 5. Contesting the uses of cultural difference -- 6. Motivations for change
Summary "This book gives a unique perspective on approaches to problem drinking among Aboriginal people, and the role that cultural difference has played. It finds that in the 1980s there was an innovative and lively international debate about addictions, yet these understandings - and potential solutions - did not find their way into Aboriginal programs. Provocatively, the book finds that this hesitation meant various governments did not intervene to reform existing services or publicise new approaches that could stem the impact of alcohol on indigenous Australians. It asks what impact this had on broader health policy and the ways we think about cultural difference, health and drinking." "By moving between the world of fieldwork with Aboriginal people throughout Australia and the world of public health research, Maggie Brady has produced a landmark study."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis Aborigines
Alcohol drinking
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander policy
Health policy
Cultural conflict
Human rights
Race relations
Australia overseas comparisons
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Extra copy donated by Ashley French
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Drinking of alcoholic beverages
Aboriginal Australians -- Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Government policy
Alcoholism -- Australia -- Prevention.
Aboriginal Australians -- Alcohol use -- Government policy.
Aboriginal Australians -- Alcohol use.
Alcoholism -- Australia.
Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy.
Alcoholism -- Government policy -- Australia.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Australia.
Oceanic Ancestry Group -- psychology.
Health Policy.
Cultural Characteristics.
Alcoholism -- ethnology.
SUBJECT Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315
Australia -- epidemiology. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315Q000453
LC no. 2005360387
ISBN 9780868405353
0868405353
Other Titles Indigenous Australia & alcohol policy