Missionary women, leprosy and indigenous Australians, 1936-1986 / Charmaine Robson.
Robson, Charmaine, author.
2022
RC154.55.A8
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Title Missionary women, leprosy and indigenous Australians, 1936-1986 / Charmaine Robson.
Author Robson, Charmaine, author.
ISBN 9783031057960 (electronic bk.)
3031057961 (electronic bk.)
9783031057953
3031057953
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05796-0
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-05796-0 doi
Call Number RC154.55.A8
Dewey Decimal Classification 616.99/800994
Summary This book focuses on twentieth-century Australian leprosaria to explore the lives of Indigenous patients and the Catholic women missionaries who nursed them. Distinguished from previous historical studies of leprosy, the book examines the care and management of the incarcerated, enabling a broader understanding of their experience. From the 1930s until the 1980s, respective governments appointed the trained sisters to four leprosaria across remote northern Australia, where almost two thousand people had been removed from their homes and detained under law for years - sometimes decades. The book traces the sisters holistic nursing from early efforts of amelioration and palliation to their part in the successful treatment of leprosy after World War II. It reveals the ways the sisters stepped out of their assigned roles and attempted to shape the institutions as places of health and hygiene, of European culture and education, and of Christianity. Making use of accounts from patients, doctors, bureaucrats, missionary men, and Indigenous families and communities, the book offers fresh perspectives on two important strands of history. First, its attention to the day-to-day work of the Australian sisters helps to demystify leprosy healthcare by female missionaries, generally. Secondly, with the sisters specifically caring for Indigenous people, this book exposes the institutional practices and goals specific to race relations of both the Australian government and Catholic missionaries. An important and timely read for anyone interested in Indigenous history, medical history and the connections between race, religion and healthcare, this book contextualizes the twentieth-century leprosy epidemic within Australias broader colonial history. Charmaine Robson lectures in history at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, and previously worked as a pharmacist. She has been an Executive member and Councillor of the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine (ANZSHM) since 2015, and President of the New South Wales Branch since 2020.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Foundations
Chapter 3: The Making of Interwar Leprosy Policy for Indigenous Australians
Chapter 4: The Church, the State and Missionary Women
Chapter 5: The Leprosaria and Nursing Practice 1937 - c.1950
Chapter 6: Social, Cultural and Spiritual Life in the Leprosarium
Chapter 7: Births, Betrothals and Bad Behaviour
Chapter 8: Missionary Men and the Indigenous Leprosaria 1940 - c.1955
Chapter 9: Leprosy Therapy and Patient Welfare in the Assimilation Era
Chapter 10: Confinement and Control in the Middle to Late Twentieth Century
Epilogue.

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