Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts : Indigenous Health in Northern Australia.
Title:
Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts : Indigenous Health in Northern Australia.
Author:
Lea, Tess.
ISBN:
9781742230412
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (293 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- The Setting -- Introducing the helping white -- The passion in policy -- The Self-replicating organisation -- Absorbing and delivering -- Learning the arts of helping -- The social life of health facts -- Manufacturing optimism, maintaining faith -- Meeting the state -- Encountering -- Suppression -- Mastery -- Being here -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
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 behalf of and for Aboriginal health, fiercely defend the ideas and principles that paradoxically reinstate the primary need for greater levels of government intervention.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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