| Aboriginal Healthworkers: Primary Health Care at the Margins By Bill Genat
Published by the University of Western Australia Press Written in collaboration with a group of Aboriginal healthworkers in WA, Bill Genat's book documents the day-to-day practice of Aboriginal healthworkers. The book looks at the unique way in which healthworkers bring health care to the Aboriginal community and describes how, almost every day as they visit clients in their homes, AHWs face the consequences of history-the exclusion, cultural oppression and racism that still undermine the health of Aboriginal people. It also describes how often healthworkers find themselves responding to clients caught up in personal and family problems, often related to housing and lack of income, that demand immediate responses and shift their own and the client's attention away from clinical health management. There are also detailed accounts of how, despite a serious lack of professional recognition and support, AHWs respond to their important work and have developed their own unique, Indigenous healing practice. The book is published by the University of Western Australia Press. |
