Dirty questions: Indigenous health and 'Western research’
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public HealthPublished 1 June 2001Open access
Kim Humphery
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This paper explores both Indigenous and non‐indigenous critiques of ‘Western’ research frameworks in an Aboriginal health context and discusses the ‘reform’ of Aboriginal health research practices since the 1980s, particularly in relation to the development of ethical guidelines.
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It is argued here that efforts to reform the practices of mainstream Indigenous health research since the 1980s have oscillated between taking concrete steps towards actually changing research practice and placing too great a reliance on written guidelines and positive rhetoric. In offering this analysis, the paper argues for a more challenging conception of reforming mainstream research, involving an emphasis on shifts in institutional arrangements as well local research practices.
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