Health Humanities and Social Sciences Unit
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Congratulations to Dr Rosalind McDougall
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Community engagement and participation are big buzzwords in health research these days. But communities, especially those considered disadvantaged and marginalised, rarely have a say in the agendas and priorities of the very health research projects that aim to help them.
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In order to reduce the transmission of COVID-19, health care institutions around the world have implemented visitor restriction policies. As with other public health policy responses to COVID-19, these policies prioritise maximising health outcomes for the entire community over individual patient and family needs.
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Dr Rosalind McDougall, Prof Lynn Gillam, Dr Danielle Ko, Ms Isabella Holmes, Prof Clare Delanyrmcdo@unimelb.edu.au
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The discussants areProf Per Axelsson of Umea University Sweden, who has worked on polio in Sweden and on Sami health and history.Prof Linda Bryder, who has written on TB in the UK, the Spanish Flu in New Zealand and in the PacificProf Janet McCalman who taught the interdisciplinary subject ‘An Ecological History of Humanity’ for sixteen years and works on historical population health.The host is Emma Dawson, director of Per Capita
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– Episode 1 - In the Midst of Death there is Life: Recovery from the Apocalypse
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A University of Melbourne ethicist is encouraging doctors to recognise the autonomy of parents, even if this could mean “less than optimal” treatment decisions for their children.
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The Health Humanities and Social Sciences Unit brings together the humanities and social sciences in the study of health and health care. The Centre uses multi-disciplinary approaches to strengthen the nexus between theory and practice in the study of health and society.
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Ethics and Equity: Transforming data sharing in infectious disease epidemics
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Using feminist pedagogy to resist harmful weight-loss dieting practices
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Vandemonians: The understory of colonial Victoria
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The First AIF: Risk Recovery and Resilience
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Moratorium on Genetic Testing & Life Insurance: Monitoring the impact
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Evidence base to inform health service configuration for abortion provision
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Voluntary assist dying in Victoria: ethical challenges in implementation
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Clinical ethics and COVID-19
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Social Determinants of Indigenous Health
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Japan and self-help groups
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Sonic Japan
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Welcome to the Health Humanities and Social Sciences Unit
The Health Humanities and Social Sciences Unit brings together the humanities and social sciences in the study of health and health care. The Centre uses multi-disciplinary approaches to strengthen the nexus between theory and practice in the study of health and society.
Work across the Centre integrates a variety of humanities and social sciences perspectives on health, disease and healthcare delivery, and uses disciplinary approaches from the history of health and medicine, medical anthropology, health ethics, sociology of health and illness, and health policy analysis.
Programs of work across this Unit focus on alcohol and other drugs, building the national and international evidence base for policy; historical demography, reconstituting historical populations to study fertility, mortality, morbidity and health transitions; ethics, including clinical ethics, research ethics, health care ethics, bioethics and ethical decision making; and the advancement of health social sciences through methodological development and innovation.