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Health and place in historical perspective: medicine, ethnicity, and colonial identities

Coleborne, Catharine; McCarthy, Angela (Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine, 2012)

Introduction to special issue. This Special Issue includes articles ﬁrst presented as papers at a two-day symposium held at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, in February 2011. The event was designed to highlight a ...

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National Fitness or Failure? Heredity, Vice and Racial Decline in New Zealand Psychiatry: A Case Study of the Auckland Mental Hospital, 1868-99

Dawson, Maree Elizabeth (University of Waikato, 2013)

This thesis examines anxieties about national fitness and efficiency in nineteenth-century New Zealand through a detailed study of medical and popular ideas about the causes of mental illness. In particular, it foregrounds ...