• Professor Janet McCalman
• Associate Professor Ian Anderson
• Dr John Waller
• Ann Brothers
• Professor Elizabeth Malcolm
• Professor Joy Damousi
• Associate Professor Sioban Nelson
• Dr Ross Jones
• Dr Ann Westmore

Professor Janet McCalman

Email: janetsm@unimelb.edu.au
Tel: +61 3 8344 0053

Professor Janet McCalman is Director of the Johnstone-Need Unit for the History of Medicine in the Centre for the Study of the Study of Health and Society (MDHS) and a Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, (Faculty of Arts ). After completing an Honours degree in history at this university, she did a PhD at the Australian National University. She is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. She has written three award-winning books, two of them on the social history of Melbourne ( Struggletown and Journeyings ). Her most recent book, Sex and Suffering , is a social history of women’s health as seen though the work of Melbourne’s Royal Women's Hospital from 1856 to 1996. She is interested in the social history of health and illness, social ecology, and the relationships between behaviour, social values and health. Janet teaches ‘The Ecological History of Humankind’ and ‘Medicine and Society: from the magical to the molecular’ in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science in the Faculty of Arts . , and co-teaches in ‘The Risk Society: Remaking Everyday Life’, with John Cash and Rosemary Robins, and teaches the honours subject 'Disease and Culture'. In the Centre for the Study of the Study of Health and Society for the Medical Humanities program she teaches in the social health postgraduate program.

Associate Professor Ian Anderson

Email: i.anderson@unimelb.edu.au
Tel: +61 3 8344 0825

Professor Ian Anderson has worked in Aboriginal (Koori) Health for about 15 years. He has worked in a number of job contexts: as an Aboriginal health worker, health educator and general practitioner. More recently he was Chief Executive Officer of the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service, then the Medical Adviser to the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health in the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care. Ian has had involvement in Aboriginal health policy development for a number of years. For example, he was chair of the National Indigenous Sexual Health Working Party that oversaw the development of the National Indigenous Sexual Health Strategy in 1997. He is Koori and has a professional background in medicine and social sciences. Ian has written widely on issues related to Aboriginal health, identity and culture. He also has a broad interest in the sociology of health and illness, related policy analysis, and theory development in the social sciences.

As Director of the Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit, Ian is leading the development of an integrated health services research and community development program. The key focus of the program is to develop a focus in research action on gaps in knowledge critical to the improvement of health care delivery to Koori people. This requires the development of a multi-disciplinary strategy in research, drawing together: history, policy analysis, health economics and other social sciences disciplines with insights from biomedical disciplines. The development of partnerships with Victorian Koori communities is critical to the success of this program.

Dr John Waller

john.waller@unimelb.edu.au Email: john.waller@unimelb.edu.au
Tel: +61 3 8344 0795

Dr John Waller is lecturer in the history of medicine and biology at the Centre for the Study of Health and Society and in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. He is a graduate of the University of Oxford in modern history and human biology, and studied the history of science at Imperial College before doing his PhD at University College London. His doctoral research was on the social and intellectual origins of Sir Francis Galton's ideas of heredity and eugenics. He has published articles on eugenics and primatology and is completing a book based on his post-doctoral research on ideas on heredity and reproduction in Britain and America, 1800-1875. John also writes history of science and medicine for a wider audience and has published two books, Fabulous Science: fact and fiction in the history of scientific discovery (Oxford, 2002) and The Discovery of the Germ (Icon Books, 2002). A third, Newton's Hubris, is almost finished. John teaches Medicine and Society and Darwinism in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, and the history of public health and in the Health and Society curriculum in the Centre for the Study of Health and Society.

Ms Ann Brothers

Email: a.brothers@unimelb.edu.au
Tel: +61 3 8344 5719

Ann Brothers is a former physiotherapist with twenty years of clinical experience. In 1987 she completed a History honours degree at the University of Melbourne, following that with a Graduate Diploma in Museum Studies. In 1989 Ann commenced work for the National Gallery of Victoria, eventually becoming a curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings. She was awarded the Harold Wright Scholarship in 1992, enabling her to carry out research in the British Museum. In 1997 Ann was engaged as a curator at Museum Victoria in the Human Mind and Body Program. Appointed Curator of the University of Melbourne Medical History Museum in August 2000 Ann now acquires, conserves and makes available for exhibition and research the Museum’s significant collection of documents, photographs and artefacts relating to health and medicine. During her career Ann has published and lectured widely in areas ranging from childbirth education to German expressionist prints.

Professor Elizabeth Malcolm

Email: e.malcolm@unimelb.edu.au
Tel: +61 3 8344 3924

Elizabeth Malcolm is the foundation professor of Irish Studies at the University of Melbourne, based in the History Department. She has degrees from the universities of New South Wales and Sydney and a PhD from Trinity College, Dublin, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She worked for many years in institutes of Irish Studies in Belfast and Liverpool, before taking up her present position in Melbourne in 2000. Her main research interest is in modern Irish social history and she has published a number of books and articles on policing, temperance, popular culture, women and migration. She has also published and taught Irish medical history, especially in the areas of mental illness, sexually transmitted diseases, public health and alcoholism. Her publications in the history of medicine include ‘Ireland Sober, Ireland Free’: Drink and Temperance in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, 1986, Swift's Hospital: a History of St Patrick's Hospital, Dublin, 1989 and Medicine, Disease and the State in Ireland, 1650-1940 , 1999 (edited with Professor Greta Jones).

Professor Joy Damousi

Email: j.damousi@unimelb.edu.au
Tel: +61 3 8344 5982

Joy Damousi is a professor in the Department of History. She is a graduate of La Trobe University and the Australian National University. Her main interests are feminist history, labour history, memory and emotions and the history of psychoanalysis. She is the author of Women Come Rally: Communism, Socialism and Gender in Australia 1890– 1955 ( Oxford 1994), Depraved and Disorderly: Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia ( Cambridge 1997), The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Wartime Australia . ( Cambridge 1999) and Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-War Australia (Cambridge 2001). She is also co-editor, with Marilyn Lake, of Gender and War: Australians at War in the Twentieth Century ( Cambridge 1995) and, with Robert Reynolds, of History on the Couch: Essays in History and Psychoanalysis (MUP 2003). She has just published Freud in the Antipodes: A C ultural H istory of P sychoanalysis in Australia ( UNSW Press 2005) .

Associate Professor Sioban Nelson

Email: siobanmn@unimelb.edu.au
Tel: +61 3 8344 0776

Associate Professor Sioban Nelson is Deputy Head of School, Associate Head of School (Research) in the School of Postgraduate Nursing, University of Melbourne and holds an adjunct appointment to the Centre for the Study of Health and Society. She is a registered nurse and has a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) History, La Trobe University and is Doctor of Philosophy, Griffith University. In her PhD studies she applied a Foucaultian perspective to the relationship between care of the sick, subjectivity and ethical practice. The monograph from this work was published as A genealogy of care of the sick by Praxis Press late in 2000. In 2001 she published Say little, do much: nurses, nuns, and hospitals in the nineteenth century, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Sioban was the Deputy Editor of the Australian Journal of Mental Health Nursing (1992-1998) and is currently editor of the influential international journal, Nursing. In 1998 she established the Australian Nursing History Project, a national project to bring nursing history to the attention of the public, to conserve historical resources and to provide information to school students on nurses and on their contribution to Australian history. Sioban is currently engaged in a variety of policy research projects.

Dr Ross Jones

Email: jonesrl@unimelb.edu.au
Tel: +61 3 8344 7983

Ross Jones completed an honours degree in history and a Dip. Ed. at the University of Melbourne. Ross then taught history for eighteen years in private and public secondary schools in Melbourne, Oxford and Canberra. In the process he gained a Masters degree in education and a PhD at Monash University. His research interests range across the development of public education, medical biography and public health policies as well as medical and educational eugenics in Australia and the US and UK. He has published in all these areas. He is currently working on a number of projects in the history of eugenics in Australia and a history of the Department of Anatomy in the University of Melbourne. He and is a Research Fellow in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Dr Ann Westmore

Email: afwest@unimelb.edu.au

Ann Westmore studied science, politics, and history and philosophy of science subjects at the University of Melbourne in the early 1970s, completing a BSc degree in 1973. She was subsequently employed as a graduate cadet journalist by the Herald and Weekly Times, Melbourne, later specialising in science and medical news and feature writing. From the late 1970s, she worked as a freelance medical and science writer and co-authored a number of popular books on fertility control and reproductive health. She has received awards for her medical writing from the Australian Medical Association and The Royal Australian College of Ophthalmologists. In the early 1990s she undertook MSc studies in the University of Melbourne History and Philosophy of Science Department and wrote a thesis entitled ‘Value-laden concepts in menopause and hormone replacement therapy’. She later gained a Melbourne Research Scholarship and commenced full-time PhD studies at the University of Melbourne. In 2002 she submitted her PhD thesis, ‘Mind, mania and science: Psychiatry and the culture of experiment in mid-twentieth century Victoria’ which centred on attempts by Victorian psychiatrists to make their specialty more ‘scientific’. Her thesis investigated a vigorous debate about the nature of mental illness and the involvement of government and church luminaries in the struggle for ascendancy between the major schools of psychiatric thought. She is currently completing a book on the history of psychiatry in 20th century Victoria.

She is a research fellow in the History of Medicine Unit and her commitments include the online historical compendium of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences and the Australian Witness to Science and Medicine seminar program that commences in 2003.

Dr Cecily Hunter

Cecily Hunter completed an honours degree in politics at Monash University in the mid-1980s. In the early 1990s she moved to the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at The University of Melbourne where she pursued her interest in the relationship between knowledge and power through the MSc program ‘Science in Society’. A thesis titled ‘Medical Knowledge and Social Power: An Exploration of Moral Issues in the Collective Generation of Health and Citizenship in Liberal Democracies’ led her into exploring this relationship through the history of medicine. After gaining an Australian Government Postgraduate Award she continued this work, investigating how doctors could know about health and illness in old age in a thesis titled ‘Doctoring Old Age: A Social History of Geriatric Medicine in Victoria’. Subsequently she began post-doctoral work with Associate Professor A.D. LaMontagne, researching the history of community responses to asbestos disease in the Latrobe Valley region of Victoria. This has led to a broader research program which aims to document the history of occupational health in Australia, using asbestos disease in the Latrobe Valley as a case study.