Aboriginal Children, History and Health

John Boulton is Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Foreword (Colin Tatz).

Preface

Part 1 The child in the human story

Chapter 2 The child and nurture in the human story
Gaynor Macdonald and John Boulton

Chapter 3 Childhood in deep human history: The evolutionary origins of human childhood
Ze’ev Hochberg

Chapter 4 Traditions of Aboriginal parenting
Gaynor Macdonald

Part 2 The child in political history

Chapter 5 A history of legislation and attitudes towards British, non-Indigenous and Indigenous Australian children
Rani Kerin

Chapter 6 The health of Aboriginal Children in Western Australian 1829 – 1960
Christine Choo

Part 3 Political and social disruptions to the pre-requisites of parenting

Chapter 7 Disrupting demography: population collapse and rebound
John Boulton

Chapter 8 Coolibah’s Story: Structural violence in the twentieth century
John Boulton

Chapter 9 The destruction of food resources at the colonial frontier
John Boulton

Part 4 Disorders of Child Growth and Development: a metric of structural violence

Chapter 10 Growth faltering as a metric of social exclusion and poverty
John Boulton

Chapter 11 A model of children’s growth and adaptation to nutritional stress
Ze’ev Hochberg and John Boulton

Part 5 Conclusion

Chapter 12 Growing up our way: beyond social determinants in the aetiology of growth faltering
John Boulton

Chapter 13 Reflections
John Boulton