Aboriginal Communities as Sites of Experiment: Making Research Subjects

在二十世纪，澳大利亚原住民是如何被视为研究对象的？该项目旨在审查土著社区成为医学调查和科学实验场所的六个示范案例。它旨在探索科学家和土著人民互动中同情和剥削、亲密和客观的不同模式。这些遗址的范围从布雷瓦里纳到赫尔曼斯堡、棕榈岛和格罗特艾兰特；时间段从20世纪10年代到90年代。这项研究将致力于将澳大利亚科学史转化为一系列土著地方历史。这种方法是史无前例的，预计将成为研究科学与土著人民之间的纠葛的典范。

How did Aboriginal Australians come to be treated as research subjects in the twentieth century? This project aims to examine six exemplary cases where Aboriginal communities became sites of medical investigation and scientific experiment. It is designed to explore different patterns of sympathy and exploitation, intimacy and objectivity, in the interactions of scientists and Aboriginal people. The sites range from Brewarrina to Hermannsburg, Palm Island and Groote Eylandt; the time period is from the 1910s through the 1990s. The research will endeavour to translate the history of Australian science into a series of Indigenous local histories. Such an approach is unprecedented and is expected to serve as a model for the study of the entanglements between science and Indigenous peoples.