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Balance, balancing and health
Lipworth, W; Hooker, C; Carter, SMPublished 2011-01-01In this article we explore the concept of balance in the context of health. We became interested in balance during a grounded theory study of lay conceptualizations of cancer risk, in which participants were concerned with ...Open AccessArticle -
Beliefs and beyond: what can we learn from qualitative studies of lay people’s understandings of cancer risk?
Lipworth, W; Davey, H; Carter, SM; Hooker, C; Hu, WPublished 2010-01-01Background: Clinicians and public health professionals are centrally concerned with mediating risk. However people often resist the risk-related information that is communicated to them by experts, or have their own models ...Open AccessArticle -
Beyond hand hygiene: a qualitative study of the everyday work of preventing cross-contamination in hospital wards
Hor, S.-Y.; Hooker, C; Iedema, R; Wyer, M; Gilbert, GL; Jorm, C; O'Sullivan, MPublished 2016-01-01Background Hospital-acquired infections are the most common adverse event for inpatients worldwide. Efforts to prevent microbial cross-contamination currently focus on hand hygiene and use of personal protective equipment ...Open AccessArticle -
Book review: ‘Illness as many Narratives: Arts, Medicine and Culture'
Hooker, C; Fitzpatrick, S.J.Published 2016-06-22Following our initial call for clinical and academic reviews of ‘Illness as many Narratives,’ Drs Claire Hooker and Scott Fitzpatrick offer their perspectives as researchers in the broader field of the medical humanities. ...Open AccessArticle -
Communicating about risk: strategies for situations where public concern is high but the risk is low.
Hooker, C; Capon, A; Leask, JPublished 2017-02-01In this article, we summarise research that identifies best practice for communicating about hazards where the risk is low but public concern is high. We apply Peter Sandman’s ‘risk = hazard + outrage’ formulation to these ...Open AccessArticle -
Communicating with the public about the risks of naturally occurring asbestos.
Hooker, C; Capon, A; Hess, IPublished 2017-01-01Objectives: To explore the application of evidence based risk communication to community messaging about naturally occurring asbestos (NOA). Type of program or service: Risk communication education about NOA. Methods: ...Open AccessArticle -
Deliberately Personal: The politics of tobacco control in NSW
Hooker, C; Chapman, SimonPublished 2006-01-01In this paper we examine some of the main features of public discourse concerning tobacco control, analysing parliamentary debate in New South Wales between 1980 and 2003. We ask both how deeply tobacco industry discursive ...Open AccessArticle -
Dignity and Narrative Medicine
Parsons, A; Hooker, CPublished 2010-01-01Critiques of the dehumanising aspects of contemporary medical practice have generated increasing interest in the ways in which health care can foster a holistic sense of wellbeing. We examine the relationship between two ...Open AccessArticle -
Diphtheria and Australian Public Health: Bacteriology and its complex applications, c.1890-1930
Hooker, C; Bashford, APublished 2002-01-01During the 1890s, the childhood infectious disease of diphtheria became closely identified with the emerging science of bacteriology and the new laboratory-based public health.' Along with the organisms causing typhoid ...Open AccessArticle -
Dr Ida Brown and the development of Australian palaeontology
Hooker, CPublished 2001-01-01Open AccessArticle -
Drawing the Lines: Health scares in the age of SARS
Hooker, CPublished 2008-01-01Epidemics of fear, perhaps also of disease: here are some important foci for our present anxieties. By ‘us’ I mean the various academics, experts and professionals, who in the ‘western’ nations of North America, Europe and ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Empathy and affect: what can empathied bodies do?
Marshall, GR; Hooker, CPublished 2016-01-01While there has been much interest in the apparent benefits of empathy in improving outcomes of medical care, there is continuing concern over the philosophical nature of empathy. We suggest that part of the difficulty in ...Open AccessArticle -
Eugenics in Australia: Striving for national fitness
Hooker, CPublished 2006-01-01This is the antiquarian’s or public historian’s bower of information about eugenics in Australia. Meticulously and extensively researched by a scholar familiar with the archives and documentary materials of eugenics ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Exploring young people's dignity: A qualitative approach
Narayan, K; Hooker, C; Jarrett, C; Bennett, DPublished 2013-10-31Aim: Human dignity as an important consideration in health care has been primarily investigated from an adult perspective. This paper explores young people's perceptions of dignity and how it impacts on their health-care ...Open AccessArticle -
The future of conference posters: ‘hipster and geek!’
Ivory, K; Hooker, C; Mooney-Somers, JuliePublished 2015-04-01What problems were addressed? Our abstract for a workshop at a national general practitioner (GP) conference was accepted … in the form of a poster! How could a workshop designed as a focus group, intended to provide a ...Open AccessArticle -
Grace Under Pressure: a drama-based approach to tackling mistreatment of medical students
Scott, KM; Berlec, Š; Nash, L; Hooker, C; Dwyer, P; Macneill, P; River, J; Ivory, KPublished 2016-10-08A positive and respectful learning environment is fundamental to the development of professional identities in healthcare. Yet medical students report poor behaviour from healthcare professionals that contradict professionalism ...Open AccessArticle -
Health scares: professional priorities
Hooker, CPublished 2011-01-01Currently, many health scholars are concerned about health scares. But what do they mean by the term ‘health scare’ – are health scares an identifiable phenomenon, and how do we currently understand their causation and ...Open AccessArticle -
Health, Medicine and the Media
Hooker, C; Pols, HPublished 2006-01-01Far more deeply than most of us realize, the media (in particular film, but also television, magazines, newspapers, and, more recently, the internet) has been intrinsic to the history of medicine and public health. For ...Open AccessArticle -
History and Social Change in Health and Medicine
Hooker, CPublished 2010-01-01In general, qualitative research – in health or otherwise – has not paid much attention to history. And why should it? While most qualitative scholars, particularly the more constructivist among us, would naturally acknowledge ...Open AccessBook chapter -
How to cut through when talking to anti-vaxxers and anti-fluoriders
Hooker, CPublished 2017-02-15Dismissing people’s worries as baseless, whether that’s about the safety of mobile phones or fluoridated drinking water, is one of the least effective ways of communicating public health risks. Yet it is common for people ...Open AccessArticle, Letter
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