Migrants, Minorities and Health: Historical and Contemporary Studies (Studies in the Social History of Medicine)

Migrants, Minorities and Health looks at a number of types of migrant and minority groups from different societies around the world. Each chapter examines how health issues have interacted with developing ideas of ethnicity. Challenging our common assumptions about migrants, minorities and health, the collection offers new perspectives from a number of disciplines. How has twentieth-century medicine dealt with immigrants and minorities? The contributors to Migrants, Minorities and Health have studied a number of different types of migrant and minority groups from different societies around the world in order to examine the complex relations between health issues and ideas of ethnicity and race. The collection explores the historical origins and the contemporary power of stereotypical views—of immigrants as importers of disease, for instance, or of minorities as a source of infection in the host society. The authors show how ideas of ethnicity and race have shaped, and in turn have been influenced by, the construction of medical ideas. Challenging our common assumptions about migrants, minorities and health, this collection brings together new perspectives from a variety of disciplines. It will make fascinating reading for social historians, medical historians and social policy makers.

Migrants, Minorities and Health explores the relations between medicine and minorities in the twentieth century. The contributors present both historical and contemporary studies of migrant and minority groups from societies around the world in order to examine how health issues have interacted with ideas of ethnicity and race. The essays explore the historical origins and contemporary power of stereotypical viewsof immigrants as importers of disease, for instance, or of minorities as sources of infection in the host society. They also show how ideas of ethnicity and race have shaped, and have in turn been influenced by, the construction of medical ideas.

Looking at a number of migrant and minority groups from around the world, this book examines how health issues and the construction of medical ideas have interacted with developing ideas of ethnicity and race This volume brings together studies from a variety of disciplines on the changing historical and contemporary health status of migrant and minority groups in different societies across the world.