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- Title
'The First Line of Defence': Domestic Health Care in Colonial New Zealand, 1850s-1920s.
- Authors
Bishop, Joanna
- Abstract
This article explores the role domestic healers played in maintaining the health of New Zealand's colonial population from the 1850s to the 1920s. It addresses the absence of domestic healers from New Zealand's current medical historiography and acknowledges the important and integral role that domestic healers played in New Zealand's diverse medical culture during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By locating health care in domestic spaces, and later, in informal health and welfare institutions in New Zealand, this article reveals the changing boundaries of 'domestic medicine' over time. It argues that, despite attempts to define the limits of domestic medical practices by authors of domestic medical manuals, by the late nineteenth century domestic health practices challenged the boundaries of state-funded institutional health.
- Subjects
NEW Zealand; OCEANIA; MEDICAL care; HEALERS; NEW Zealand history; BRITISH colonies; HEALTH &; society; HISTORY
- Publication
Health & History: Journal of the Australian & New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine, 2014, Vol 16, Issue 2, p5
- ISSN
1442-1771
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/hah.2014.0013