Killing the mockingbird: Systems failure and a radical hope for re-grounding responsibility and access to health care in a Mallee town community

Rural Society

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 35-50

  Coldwell, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal health; Access; Institutional racism; Reconciliation; Responsive attentiveness; Situated knowledge; Social exclusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650045053     PISSN: 10371656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/rsj.20.1.35     Document Type: Article

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