Abstract
The author explores the position of Aboriginal people prior to and subsequent to the 1967 referendum. He notes the impact of organised medicine's resistance to nationalised health care in Australia and the impact this had on Indigenous people. He provides a social and historical analysis of the Constitution and other legal and quasi-legal regulations as factors in the provision or lack of health care for Aboriginal people. He raises questions about the impact of specific health professional groups and their professional structures on the kinds of health are provided. The ebb and flow of power between doctors, nurses and Aboriginal health workers illustrates the way Indigenous health and health beliefs and practices are constructed and understood. (non-author abstract)
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