Fatal Contact: How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia's First Peoples

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Fatal Contact explores the devastating infectious diseases introduced into the Indigenous populations of Australia after the arrival of the British colonists in 1788. Epidemics of smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza, measles and sexually transmitted diseases swept through the Indigenous populations of the continent well into the twentieth century. The consequences still echo today in Aboriginal health and life expectancy. Many historians have acknowledged...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1922464465

ISBN13:9781922464460

Release Date:October 2021

Publisher:Monash University Publishing

Length:400 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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History Medical Medical Books Social Science Social Sciences

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