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Contributors
CATHARINE COLEBORNE is currently the Book Reviews editor for Health & History and is interested in hearing from reliable and regular reviewers for this section! She is engaged in various research projects about insanity, the insane and their families in colonial Australia and New Zealand and most recently published her book Reading 'Madness' with the API Network in 2007.
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JUDITH CORNELL AM was formerly Executive Director at the NSW College of Nursing. She now holds honorary positions as College of Nursing archivist, and curator of SPASM (Society for the Preservation of the Artefacts of Surgery & Medicine). She was inaugural chairman of the Lucy Osburn Nightingale Foundation, which manages the Sydney Hospital historical collection. Judith also moderates the CHAHM-discuss email discussion list for custodians of medical collections and is currently working on a history of the NSW Bush Nursing Association.
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DEREK DOW is a freelance historian based in Auckland. In a previous existence he was archivist to the Greater Glasgow Health Board for 11 years.
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BARRY DRAPER is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Health Sciences at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University in Melbourne. His main research interest concerns the concept of evidence as it is used to justify health care practice and patronage.
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LISA FEATHERSTONE is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Modern History at Macquarie University. She teaches in Australian history, Australian Studies and Gender History. She has published in journals and international edited collections in medical history and the history of sexuality, and has won prizes for articles in Australian Historical Studies and Liminia (The Mary Bennett Prize for Women's History and the Iain Brash Prize). In 2005, she was the CH Currey Memorial Fellow at the State Library of New South Wales.
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MARK FINNANE is ARC Australian Professorial Fellow, Griffith University in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security. His most recent book is JV Barry: a Life, published by UNSW Press.
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KIRSTY HARRIS completed her PhD in history at the University of Melbourne in 2006. The title of her thesis was: Not just 'routine nursing': The roles and skills of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) during World War I. She has published papers on nurse anaesthetists and nurse dispensers in the AANS, the relationship between the AANS and the British nursing services during World War I, and post-war nursing work.
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SUSAN HEYDON holds a PhD in History from the University of Otago. Her research examined the introduction of 'modern medicine' and the implementation of an aid project in Nepal and her book will be published in late-2008 or early-2009. She has taught courses at Otago on India, international medical aid and the Sherpas of the Mt Everest area of Nepal. Ongoing research interests focus on the South Asian region and include the provision of rural health services, international aid and health, and practising medicine in a plural medical environment.
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MEG PARSONS Meg Parsons did her undergraduate studies at the University of Waikato and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on Queensland Aboriginal history and charts the involvement of various state government departments in managing Aboriginal health over the early–twentieth century. Her research interests include the role of missionaries in Aboriginal health and comparative studies between Queensland and other colonial localities.
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HANS POLS is senior lecturer and director of the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. His research interests include the history of psychiatry, theories and treatments for war-related psychiatric injuries, and the history of medicine in the former Dutch East Indies and Indonesia. He is currently the editor of Health & History.
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PHILLIP ROBERTS is a PhD student at the Australian National University's School of Archaeology and Anthropology. His research interests include the relationship between disease and the cultural environment, disease survival rates before the introduction of modern medicine, disease history and how variation in disease rates in a population can be used for archaeological and cultural reconstruction. Currently, his research is centred on examining these points using historical records from late colonial and early modern Victoria.
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DOUGLAS SIMES is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Waikato. He specialises in the political and intellectual history of Britain and Ireland in the early–nineteenth century, especially the press, political parties, and ideology. He also has a research interest in the military profession in the late–eighteenth century.
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F.B. SMITH is Professor Emeritus of History at the Australian National University. His medical history books include The People's Health, Florence Nightingale and The Retreat of Tuberculosis.
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| VIRGINIA THORLEY is the author of Successful Breastfeeding (various editions, 1974–1991) and Feeding Your Baby and Young Child in Australia (second edition renamed Feeding Your Baby and Child: A Guide for Australian Parents), both now out of print. In 1985 she was in the original cohort to certify as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and has remained certified. During 1999–2002 she was on the board of directors of the International Lactation Consultant Association. Her MA and PhD theses, both from the University of Queensland, were cultural histories of the history of medicine. |
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