The hungry heart / Max Griffiths
- Bib ID:
- 1068652
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Griffiths, Max
- Description:
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- Kenthurst [N.S.W.] : Kangaroo Press ; [Cincinnati, OH : Distributed by Seven Hills Book Dist.], c1992
- 176 p., [20] p. of plates : col. ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0864174861
- Summary:
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Various accounts of work as the superintendent of the Australian Inland Mission, 1974-1985; medical services and hospital conditions, race relations, living conditions, Christianity, domestic and community violence , substance abuse, appropriate services and resources, health personnel education and aged care in the Pilbara , Kimberley, Central Australia and Western Queensland; includes accounts of Oodnadatta, Birdsville, Andamooka, Warburton, Darwin, Halls Creek, Fitzroy Crossing and Alice Springs.
- Notes:
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- Distributor from label on cover.
- Includes index.
- Subject:
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- Griffiths, Max
- Australian Inland Mission
- Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia
- Missionaries -- Australia -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Medical care
- Substance use - Social and economic aspects
- Death
- Race relations - Racial discrimination - Health
- Aged - Care
- Health status - Morbidity and mortality rates
- Health services - Health programs
- Religions - Christianity - Missionaries
- Health services - Health workers
- Health services
- Socioeconomic conditions - Living conditions
- Race relations
- Health status - Aged health
- Socioeconomic conditions - Social deprivation
- Education
- Health status - Public health
- Health - Education and promotion
- Family - Violence
- Religions - Christianity - Missions
- Substance use
- Health services - Emergency services - Air ambulances / Flying Doctor
- History - Biographies - Non-Indigenous - Autobiographies
- Australia -- Social life and customs
- Australia -- Social conditions
- Fitzroy Crossing (WA West Kimberley SE51-12)
- Pilbara area (WA SF50, SF51, SG50)
- Warburton (Central WA SG52-09)
- Halls Creek (WA East Kimberley SE52-10)
- Andamooka (West SA SH53-12)
- Mparntwe / Alice Springs (South Central NT SF53-14)
- Birdsville (Qld Far West SG54-05)
- Milyirrtjarra / Warburton (Central WA SG52-09)
- Darwin (NT Top End SD52-04)
- Oodnadatta (SA Central Australia SG53-15)
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1992
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