Disease and the destruction of indigenous populations

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1990

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Kunitz, Stephen J.

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Canberra : National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University

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My focus in this chapter is upon the impact that European contact has had upon non-Europeans. The topic is vast since indigenous populations, by which I mean the native peoples of non-European lands, are enormously diverse - a diversity that is matched by their disease experience. I shall proceed by examining the sources of diversity, on a series of progressively finer levels of analysis.

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Minorities -- Diseases, Minorities -- Health and hygiene, Diseases and history, Europeans -- Migrations -- Social aspects, Indigenous peoples.

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