Brasier Angeline
University of Melbourne.
Health History. 2010;12(2):18-38. doi: 10.5401/healthhist.12.2.0018.
Recent historical research looks upon the plight of Australian convicts not as victims of a harsh penal system, but as workers whose health had to be judiciously maintained. What then can be said for the medical treatments provided for convict patients during this chapter in Australia's past? Did convicts receive medical treatments with the same measure of importance and urgency as the free populace, or were prisoners' bodies considered with such a measure of insignificance that they provided veritable opportunities for advances in medicine? This article will provide general insight into prison medicine in Australia during the transportation era and how some convicts were subjected to experimental medical practices. It will also place these techniques into a wider global context by considering experimental practices involving convict patients in establishments in other places, such as Wakefield and Bermuda.
近期的历史研究并不把澳大利亚罪犯的困境视为严苛刑罚制度的受害者，而是看作那些健康状况必须得到审慎维护的劳动者。那么，对于澳大利亚过去这段时期为罪犯患者提供的医疗救治又该作何评价呢？罪犯接受医疗救治时所得到的重视程度和紧迫性与自由民众相同吗？还是说囚犯的身体被认为微不足道，以至于为医学进步提供了切实的机会？本文将对澳大利亚流放时期的监狱医学以及一些罪犯如何遭受实验性医疗实践提供总体的见解。通过考量在其他地方（如韦克菲尔德和百慕大）的机构中涉及罪犯患者的实验性实践，本文还将把这些技术置于更广阔的全球背景下。
