The Shameful Isles: The true story of North-West Australia's fatal experiment with medical apartheid - Paperback
by David Price
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Fremantle PressISBN-13:9781760994174ISBN-10:1760994170UPC:9781760994174Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Australia & New Zealand, Indigenous, ModernBook Topic:Contact, European Invasion & Exploration, 20th CenturySize:9.25 x 6.02 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.8907Product ID:SC2RAE61XD
The Shameful Isles: The true story of North-West Australia's fatal experiment with medical apartheid
In 1907, the Western Australian government began a program of forcibly removing supposedly ill Aboriginal people to purpose-built lock hospitals on Bernier and Dorre Islands, off the coast of Carnarvon.
There, they were trapped against their will and exposed to experimental drugs and procedures. Many never returned and are buried in unmarked graves in the sandhills of Bernier and Dorre.
Comprised...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Fremantle PressISBN-13:9781760994174ISBN-10:1760994170UPC:9781760994174Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Australia & New Zealand, Indigenous, ModernBook Topic:Contact, European Invasion & Exploration, 20th CenturySize:9.25 x 6.02 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.8907Product ID:SC2RAE61XD
Price, David: - David Price is a Western Australian educator and writer who grew up in the small northwest town of Carnarvon. His first book, Dark Tales from the Long River, was published by Fremantle Press in 2020 and explored some lesser-known and sadder historical events of the Gascoyne and Murchison Regions. Now living in Perth, David continues to be intrigued by the unspoken history of his...
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