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 storyChapter 2 The child and nurture in the human storyGaynor Macdonald and John BoultonChapter 3 Childhood in deep human history: The evolutionary origins of human childhoodZe’ev HochbergChapter 4 Traditions of Aboriginal parentingGaynor MacdonaldPart 2 The child in political history Chapter 5 A history of legislation and attitudes towards British, non-Indigenous and Indigenous Australian childrenRani KerinChapter 6 The health of Aboriginal Children in Western Australian 1829 – 1960Christine ChooPart 3 Political and social disruptions to the pre-requisites of parentingChapter 7 Disrupting demography: population collapse and reboundJohn BoultonChapter 8 Coolibah’s Story: Structural violence in the twentieth centuryJohn BoultonChapter 9 The destruction of food resources at the colonial frontier John BoultonPart 4 Disorders of Child Growth and Development: a metric of structural violenceChapter 10 Growth faltering as a metric of social exclusion and povertyJohn BoultonChapter 11 A model of children’s growth and adaptation to nutritional stressZe’ev Hochberg and John Boulton Part 5 ConclusionChapter 12 Growing up our way: beyond social determinants in the aetiology of growth falteringJohn BoultonChapter 13 ReflectionsJohn Boulton

"Aboriginal Children, History and Health is both an emblematic story of the frontier in northern Australia and a guide to the hidden, persisting causes of indigenous disadvantage... Every sentence of his narrative breathes intellectual curiosity and empathy with his patients in the hectic, highly coloured remote community world."— Nicolas Rothwell, The Australian