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Article: Counting, health and identity: a history of Aboriginal health and demography in Western Australia and Queensland.(Book Review)
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- Australian Aboriginal Studies
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- March 22, 2004
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Counting, health and identity: a history of Aboriginal health and demography in Western Australia and Queensland
Gordon Briscoe
Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2003, 335 pp, ISBN 0855754478
The back cover of Counting, health and identity promises that the book will 'blast open some of the blockages historians may face in presenting a "balanced view" of Australian history, freeing the flow of intellectual thought in response to Aboriginal and Australian history'. The claim is not unreasonable. Throughout this history of Aboriginal health in the two states, Briscoe's judgements are uniformly fresh, interesting and considered. While many ...