Fatal Contact: How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia's First Peoples by Peter Dowling

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Secondhand. Very good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Stamp on half-title page is now covered with a blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Body text and binding are still very good.

Fatal Contact explores the devastating infectious diseases introduced into the Indigenous populations of Australia after the arrival of the British colonists in 1788. Epidemics of smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza, measles and sexually transmitted diseases swept through the Indigenous populations of the continent well into the twentieth century. The consequences still echo today in Aboriginal health and life expectancy.