Category Archives: Centre for Health & Society

CHS Confirmation Seminar 08-Dec-09: Practising engagement: an ethnographic study of early clinical encounters between medical students and patients in a teaching hospital

1-2pm, Room 516, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Presented by Sally Warmington
The emphasis in modern medical schools on the teaching of communication skills reflects a widespread acknowledgement that effective communication is vital for good clinical practice. Yet despite this, many doctors still interact with patients in a detached manner which suggests a lack of care [...]

CHS Completion Seminar 25-Nov-09: A syncopated progress: disability services in Australian higher education, a contemporary case study

1-2pm, Room 410, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Presented by Anthony Williams.
This study examines a particular moment in the construction of disability within Australian higher education.
Please see seminar flyer for further information or call CHS on 83440813.

CHS Seminar 22-Oct-09: Beyond Cultural Awareness: Considering Koori Social Networks in Improving Access to Injecting Drug Use Services

1-2pm, Room 516, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton.
Presented by Dr Anke Van Der Sterren , Centre for Health and Society, University of Melbourne
Please see seminar flyer for further information or call CHS on 83440813.
 

CHS PhD Oration 15-Oct-09: Sensing the corpse: A social anatomy of the hospital autopsy

4-5pm, Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Presented by Dr Philomena Horsley
Dead bodies are in vogue. Dissected corpses litter our television screens and crime books. Yet in Western hospitals the autopsy is almost extinct, and opinions about the usefulness of the modern autopsy remain sharply divided. How can this be? Why has the autopsy [...]

PhD Completion Seminar 8-Oct-09: Top Down/Bottom Up: Exploring the capacity of place-based initiatives to reduce disadvantage

When: 12.00 – 1.00pm, Thursday 8 October, 2009
Where: Room 516, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street
Presented by Theonie Tacticos, McCaughey Centre: VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics, and Centre for Health and Society, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne
Australia, like other [...]

CHS Seminar 10-Sep-09: Fat talk: A Discussion of Pregnant Body Image in Melbourne

1pm
Room 405B, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Presented by
Dr Meredith Nash, Centre for Health and Society
Feminist scholars have long argued that the significatory possibilities of women’s bodies/body images in Euro-America and Australia have been constrained by gendered cultural norms that value flat stomachs and slenderness. In this paper, I shall argue that a fixed referent, [...]

McCaughey Centre/CHS/VCOSS Seminar 27-Aug-09: Equity in Victoria

1.00 – 3.30pm, Thursday 27 August 2009
RACV Club Conference Centre, 501 Bourke St, Melbourne
Prof. Richard Wilkinson, Emeritus Professor of Social Epidemiology, University of Nottingham

McCaughey Centre Seminar 25-Aug-09: Science, Magic, Skills and the Art of Success with NHMRC and ARC

1.00 – 2.00pm, Tuesday 25 August, 2009
Basement Lecture Theatre, 221 Bouverie Street
Professor Elizabeth Waters, Jack Brockhoff Chair of Child Public Health, the McCaughey Centre
Professor Anthony Scott, Professorial Fellow, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne
Professor John Matthews, Professorial Fellow, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne
Dr Tania Bezzobs, Manager Research Development, Melbourne Research Office
Professor Janet [...]

CHS Seminar 20-Aug-09: Four Ways to tell the Kuru Story

1pm
Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Presented by Shirley Lindenbaum, Professor Emerita of the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
The epidemic of kuru, a fatal disease that has long burdened the Fore people of Papua New Guinea, appears to be approaching an end. Since its peak in the late 1950s and early 1960s, [...]

Onemda Event 7-Jul-09: NAIDOC Celebrations

Onemda and the Centre for Indigenous Education invite you to join us in celebrating NAIDOC week on Tuesday 7th July, from 12pm in the ‘Hub’, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton.
Please RSVP to Nicole Waddell on waddell@unimelb.edu.au or 83449337.

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