Health

Aims and objectives:

The aims of the Sociology of Health Thematic Group are to:

• support social and sociological research on health and medical issues
• encourage and facilitate contact among academics and others researching in the field
• encourage submission of papers to TASA conferences and HSR
• provide an avenue for researchers to have draft papers informally reviewed by members
• encourage postgraduate interest in the field of the sociology of health

Year established:

The Health Section of TASA was first established in 1967. It was known as the Medical Sociology Section, at a time when the national association was known as SAANZ (the Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand). It was the first specialty section formed.

Health Day 2010. Professor Rick Iedema at the lectern, (front, from left: Professor David Pilgrim, Dr Rowena Forsyth, Professor Stephanie Short and Dr Katherine Carroll

At the TASA Annual Conference in December 2010, we held our annual Health Day at Macquarie University. This was a successful event, with two panel presentations. The first Panel was ‘Doing Sociology With Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities for Research and Teaching’ with speakers:

Professor David Pilgrim, Professor of Mental Health Policy in the School of Social Work at of the University of Central Lancashire

Professor Stephanie Short, Professor of Health Sciences and Associate Dean at the University of Sydney

Dr Rowena Forsyth, a Research Fellow in the Northern Clinical School at the University of Sydney

Dr Katherine Carroll, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney

Professor Rick Iedema, Professor of Communication in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney

The second panel was titled ‘Reflections on the Field: The Early Years and Progress in the Sociology of Health, Illness and Medicine’. Speakers for this event were:

• Professor Dorothy Broom, of the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University
• Professor Anne Rogers, Professor of the Sociology of Health Care at the University of Manchester
• Professor Jeanne Daly, a Fellow of the Public Health Association of Australia and Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Thank you to all our speakers and participants, and we look forward to this year’s Health Day.

Group Members

Adele Pavlidis

Alan Petersen

Alex Broom

Allison Kirkman

Alphia Possamai-Inesedy

Andrew Clarke

Angela Durey

Barbara Evers

Barbara Parker

Beverley McNamara

Big Leung

Bill Tyler

Bill Genat

Brenton Prosser

CHERYL MANGAN

Caragh Brosnan

Cassie Curryer

Catherine Waldby

Catherine Robinson

Christopher Smith

Claudia Slegers

Danielle Couch

Deborah Lupton

Deborah Oxlade

Diana Mizerni

Duncan Munnings

Edgar Burns

Eileen Willis

Eileen Clark

Emma Kirby

FIona Pacey

Fiona Keer

Fran Collyer

Gil-Soo Han

Grazyna Zajdow

Gyorgy Scrinis

Hal Kendig

Hannah Graham

Helen Miller

Helen Bristed

Hinna Khalid

Ingrid Muenstermann

Jacqueline Hodges

Jennifer Smith-Merry

Jens O. Zinn

Jessica Gunson

Jo Lindsay

Joan Abbott-Chapman

Joanne Bryant

Johanne Brady

John Germov

Judy Markos

Juliet Richters

Karalyn McDonald

Karen Willis

Katherine Carroll

Kathryn Dwan

Katie Wright

Katie Hunt

Kenneth Yates

Kerry Egan

Kim Hudson

Kirsten Harley

Krista Tomas

Lauren Williams

Lauren Sanford

Lena Rodriguez

Leonie Short

Lise Mogensen

Louise Roberts

Luke Gahan

Maelisa McNeil

Margaret Tiyce

Maria Strong

Marianne Wyder

Mark Davis

Meg Carter

Melissa-Jane Belle

Meredith Nash

Michele Whitbourne

Michelle Black

Monika Dryburgh

Natalya Godbold

Peta Cook

Peter Gale

Rachael Saward-Boric

Rebecca Olson

Rebecca Wellard

Rhian Parker

Riki Lane

Rose Leontini

Rosie Welch

Rowena Forsyth

Sam Toloo

Samantha Meyer

Sanjay Sharma

Sarah Redshaw

Shari Bonnette

Simone Fullagar

Stephen Kilkeary

Su-yin Hor

Sujay Kentlyn

Tass Holmes

Terry Moore

Tori Stratford

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