Bureaucrats and bleeding hearts : indigenous health in northern Australia / Tess Lea.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lea, Tess.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health--Australia--Northern Territory.

Public health.

Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Northern Territory.

Aboriginal Australians.

Bureaucracy--Australia--Northern Territory.

Bureaucracy.

Northern Territory. Territory Health Services.

Northern Territory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Indigenous health in northern Australia

Place of Publication:

Sydney, NSW : University of New South Wales Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

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 beh

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; The Setting; Absorbing and delivering; Meeting the state; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-267) and index.

ISBN:

1-74223-041-5

OCLC:

476256114