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NAME L Claire Hooker
ADDRESS Centre for Values, Ethics and Law in Medicine, K25 Medical
Foundation Building, 92-94 Parramatta Rd, University of
Sydney, NSW, Australia 2006
CITIZENSHIP Canadian and Australian
CURRENT POSITION Senior Lecturer and Coordinator, Medical Humanities, Centre
for Values, Ethics and Law, University of Sydney
Chair, NSW Arts and Health Leadership council, 2015 CAREER DISRUPTION 2007-2008 and 2011-2014
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
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QUALIFICATIONS
Health and medical humanities / arts and health
Risk communication and management
Politics and ethics of infection
Sociology of healthcare; workplaces and communication
in healthcare
History of science and medicine
PhD (History: gender and science) University of Sydney, 2001
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Research Activities
Current Research Projects
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Involving patients in understanding hospital infection control using visual methods
Grace under Pressure: Enacting professionalism in practice
Minimaxing and risk communication in epidemic outbreaks
Empathy in medicine and healthcare
Ethics and the creative arts
Workplace systems, communication and professionalism in healthcare
Strengthening frontline clinicians’ infection control
Webster A, Hooker C, Bero L, White S, Stanton K, Wearne J, Who pays to publish?
Investigating the true cost of Publishing in medical journals (COPIt study), 2015-16
Competitive Grants
2014
Newson A, Carter S, Callaghan S, Hooker C, Irvine R, Jordens C, Kerridge I, Lipworth W,
Mooney-Somers J. Optimising student experiences of online learning and teaching in
bioethics, the health humanities and qualitative health research. Research into Teaching
Seed Funding 2014, The University of Sydney, $3,000
2011
Iedema R, Hooker C, Gilbert L, Sullivan M, Jorm, C. Strengthening frontline clinicians’
infection control: A multimethod study to reduce MRSA infection and transmission.
NHMRC 1009178 $829 914 ($298638; $258638; $263638)
2010
Carter SM, Hooker C, Kerridge IH, Rychetnik L. Reconceptualising health promotion: an
empirical examination of the role of values, ethics and evidence in obesity intervention.
NHMRC 632679 $537,950 ($167,650; $157,650; $212,650)
Macneill P, Kerridge I, Little JM, Mills C, Jordens C, Hooker C. Bioethisphere: A webbased means for reflecting on values through various disciplines. Thyne Reid Charitable
Trust. $56,000 over 12 months.
2008
Kerridge I, Little M, Jordens C, Hooker C, Hu W, Macneill P. Restoring value(s) to
medicine: An examination of the scientific and ethical foundations of medicine. Medical
Foundation, University of Sydney. $402,665 (3 years)
Kerridge I, Stewart C, Carter S, Jordens C, Hooker C, Mills C, Cheung P, Hu W, Little JM,
Letts J, Mitchell J, Walters W, Clout T. Developing clinical ethics capacity in NSW
through partnership. NSW Health. $939212 (3 years)
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2006
Carter S, Hooker C, Thomas S, How do lay people understand the risk of developing
cancer? A qualitative study using grounded theory procedures, $271,125 (2007:$81,750,
2008:$98,875, 2009:$90,500) NHMRC 457387. (3 years).
Hooker, C., Sly, T and Pushchak, R. Trust and Public and Policy Responses to Drinking Water
Risks. Health Canada. $250,000 ( 2.5 years; defunded by a new incoming government).
2004
Hooker C. Sidney Sax Travelling Postdoctoral Fellowship in Public Health Comparing
health scares in Canada and Australia - managing health risks between public fears and
professional priorities. NHMRC 307714 $278,264 (3 years).
Hooker C (Co-applicant), ‘Tuberculosis, Race and Migration: Australia and UK
compared’. Funding body: British Academy. Australian Academy of the Humanities,
Australian Social Sciences Academy and the British Academy Special Joint Project Award.
PIs: Dr Alison Bashford, University of Sydney, and Dr John Welshman, University of
Lancaster. Award: $12000 AUD (2 years). I relinquished this project to accept the Sidney
Sax fellowship.
Publications
Books
Conklin, N. D. (2006). Two Paths to Heaven's Gate. (commissioned work). Editor: Hooker, C.
Charlottesville, NC: National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
Hooker C. (2005) Irresistible Forces: Women of science in
Australia. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne.
(Nominated for the History of Science Society’s Rossiter
Prize, shortlisted, Queensland Premier’s Literary
Awards, one chapter awarded the Max Kelly Medal)
Bashford, A., & Hooker, C. (Eds.). (2001). Contagion: Historical and Cultural
Studies. First edition: Routledge. London, New York and Sydney. Second
edition: Pluto Press, London and Sydney.
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Book Chapters
Hooker, Claire, Degeling, C., Mason, P., “Dying a natural death: Ethics and political activism
for endemic infectious disease. “Endemic: Essays in Contagion Theory. Lorenzo
Servitje and Kari Nixon (eds). London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2 Sept 2016. ISBN 978-1137-52141-5.
Hooker C, Macneill P. 2015. Literature. In: Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer
Reference. Published online: 24 Mar 2015, doi 10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_274-1
Hooker, C. 2014. Ethics and the Arts in the Medical Humanities. Chapter 19, In MacNeill, P
(ed) Ethics and the Arts. London, Springer, pp 213 - 224, ISBN 978-94-017-8816-8
Crosbie C, Richters J, Hooker C and Leask J. 2013. Filthy fingernails and friendly germs: Lay
concepts of contagious disease transmission in developed countries. In: Banwell C,
Ulijaszek S and Dixon J. When Culture Impacts Health, 1st Edition. London: Elsevier,
ISBN: 978-0-12-415921-1
Hooker, C., Leask, J., King, C. 2012. ‘Media ethics and infectious disease’, in: Ethics and
Security Aspects of Infectious Disease Control. Eds. Christian Enemark and Michael J.
Selgelid, United Kingdom, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 161–178.
Hooker, C. 2010. ‘History and Social Change in Health and Medicine’, in: The Sage
Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research, Eds: Ivy Bourgeault, Robert
Dingwall, Ray de Vries. Sage, London, pp. 265-86.
Hooker, C. 2009. ‘Middlemarch’ in Michael A. LaCombe, MD, David J. Elpern, MD (eds.),
Osler’s Bedside Library, ACP Press, Philadelphia, pp 155-166. eISBN 9781934465479,
ISBN 10 1-934465-47-X
Hooker, C. 2008. ‘SARS as a health scare’ in: Harris Ali and Roger Keil, eds, Networked
Disease: Emerging Infectious Disease in the Global City, (invited chapter, peer
reviewed.) Blackwell publishers, Studies in Urban and Social Change series. 123-137
Hooker, C. 2007. ‘Drawing the Lines: Health scares in the age of SARS’ in Alison Bashford (ed)
Medicine at the Border. (Invited chapter, peer reviewed.) Palgrave Macmillan, 2008,
pp.179 -195. ISBN 978-0-230-28890-4
Hooker, C., 2005. ‘Women Historians of Science’, in M Spongberg, B. Caine and A. Curthoys,
eds, The Companion to Women’s Historical Writing. Palgrave MacMillan
Hooker, C., 2005. ‘Hygiene’, in: Horowitz, M.C. (ed) New dictionary of the history of ideas.
2005: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN-10: 0684313774 | ISBN-13: 9780684313771
Hooker, C., 2002. ‘Sanitary Failure and Risk: Pasteurisation, immunisation and the logics of
prevention’, in Bashford and Hooker, Contagion: Historical and Cultural Studies.
Routledge and Pluto Press: 129-152.
Hooker, C. and Bashford, A. 2002. ‘Introduction’ and ‘Epilogue’, in Bashford and Hooker,
Contagion: Historical and Cultural Studies. Routledge and Pluto Press. 1-12, 227-233.
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Journal Articles1
Marshall GR, Hooker C. Empathy and affect: what can empathied bodies do? Medical
Humanities. 2016 Feb 8:medhum-2015.
Mayes C, Hooker C, Kerridge I. Bioethics and Epistemic Scientism. J Bioeth Inq. 2015
Dec;12(4):565-7. doi: 10.1007/s11673-015-9667-z. Epub 2015 Dec 8. (Peer-reviewed
editorial)
Fitzpatrick, S. J., Hooker, C., & Kerridge, I. H. 2015. Suicidology as a Social Practice': A
Reply to Tom Widger. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 4, no. 4
(2015): 21-25. [Invited paper; reply to the reply was subsequently solicited by the editor]
Hooker C., Understanding empathy: why phenomenology and hermeneutics can help medical
education and practice. Med Health Care and Philos. 2015. Volume 18, Issue 4, pp 541552. First online: 13 March 2015
Iedema, R., Hor, S ., Wyer, M., Jorm, C., Gilbert, G. L., Hooker, C. & O’Sullivan, M. 2015.
An innovative approach to strengthening health professionals’ infection control and
limiting hospital- acquired infection: Videography. BMJ Innovations,
doi:10.1136/bmjinnov-2014-000032, Published Online 23 July 2015
Wyer, Mary; Iedema, Rick; Jorm, Christine; Armstrong, Gary; Hor, Su-Yin; Hooker, Claire;
Jackson, Debra; Hughes, Clarissa; O'Sullivan, Matthew V.N.; and Gilbert, Gwendolyn
L. (2015) Should I stay or should I go? Patient understandings of and responses to
source-isolation practices, Patient Experience Journal: Vol. 2: Iss. 2, Article 9.
Available at: http://pxjournal.org/journal/vol2/iss2/9
Wyer M., Jackson D., Iedema R., Hor S.Y., Gilbert G.L., Jorm C., Hooker C, O’Sullivan M.
& Carroll K., 2015. Involving patients in understanding hospital infection control using
visual methods, Journal of Clinical Nursing, published online 7 FEB 2015, DOI
10.1111/jocn.12779
Hooker C, Mayes C, Degeling C, Gilbert L, Kerridge I., 2014. Don’t be scared, be angry: The
politics and ethics of Ebola, Medical Journal of Australia, published online 15
September 2014, DOI 10.5694/mja14.01191
Fitzpatrick, S. J., Hooker, C., & Kerridge, I. H. 2014. Suicidology as a social practice. Social
Epistemology Published online 12 Mar 2014, DOI: 10.1080/02691728.2014.895448
Dowd, K., Taylor, M., Toribio, J., Hooker, C., Dhand, N. 2013, Zoonotic disease risk
perceptions and infection control practices of Australian veterinarians: Call for change in
work culture. Preventive Veterinary Medicine. 111(1-2), 17-24
Narayan, K., Hooker, C., Jarrett, C., Bennett, D. 2013, Exploring young people's dignity: A
qualitative approach. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 49(11), 891-894.
Hooker, C., King, C., Leask, J. (2012), Journalists' views about reporting avian influenza and
a potential pandemic: a qualitative study. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses. 6(3),
224-229.
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Most of my journal articles are now available in open access format. Please check my listings in the Sydney
eScholarship Repository for fulltexts.
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Carter SM, Rychetnik L, Lloyd B, Kerridge IH, Baur L, Bauman A, Hooker C, Zask A .2011.
Evidence, ethics and values: a framework for health promotion. American Journal of
Public Health 101, 3, 465-472
Hooker, C., Noonan, E. 2011, Medical humanities as expressive of Western culture. Medical
Humanities. 37(2), 79-84.
Lipworth, W., Hooker, C., Carter, S. 2011, Balance, balancing, and health. Qualitative Health
Research. 21(5), 714-725.
Hooker, C., ‘Health scares: professional priorities’, 2010, Health: An interdisciplinary journal
of health and society 14, 1, 3-21
Hooker, C., and Parsons, A., 2010. Dignity and Narrative Medicine. Journal of Bioethical
Inquiry 7, 3, 345-351 DOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9254-2
Leask, J., Hooker, C., King, C. 2010. Media coverage of health issues and how to work more
effectively with journalists: a qualitative study. BMC Public Health 10:535: doi:
10.1186/1471-2458-10-535
Lipworth, W., Davey, H., Carter, S., Hooker, C. and Hu, W. 2010. Beliefs and beyond: what
can we learn from qualitative studies of lay people’s understandings of cancer risk?
Health Expectations, 13, pp.113–124
Hooker, C., Carter, S., and Davey, H. 2009 . ‘Writing the risk of cancer: cancer risk in policy
documents.’ Health, Risk and Society 11, 6, 541 - 560.
Hooker, C., and Ali, H., 2009 . ‘SARS and Security: Health in the ‘New Normal’, Studies in
Political Economy, 84, Fall, 101-128.
Carter, S., Hooker, C. and Davey, H. 2009 . ‘Writing Social Determinants Into and Out of
Cancer Control: An Assessment of Policy Practice’, Social Science and Medicine 68,
1448-55.
Hooker, C. 2008 . ‘The Medical Humanities: A brief introduction.’ Australian Family
Physician, 37, 4, 369-70.
Hooker, C. and S. Chapman, 2007 . “Our youth must be protected from drug abuse”: talking
tobacco control in the New South Wales Parliament, (1960-2003)’, Health & History 9,
1:106-28.
Hooker, C. and S. Chapman, 2006 . ‘Structural elements in achieving legislative tobacco
control in NSW, 1955-95: political reflections and implications.’ Australian and New
Zealand Journal of Public Health 30:10-15.
Hooker, C. And S. Chapman, 2006. ‘Deliberately Personal: The politics of tobacco control in
NSW’, Critical Public Health, 16, 35-46.
Hooker, C. 2006. ‘Eugenics in Australia: Striving for national fitness.’ Isis, 97, 4: 784-786.
Hooker, C. And Pols, H. 2006. ‘Health, Medicine and the Media’, Health and History, 8, 2: 1-13
Hooker, C. 2006. ‘Moral Oversights?’ Metascience, 15, 319-22
Hooker, C., 2003. ‘Rethinking our habits: Review of Learning to Smoke (Jason Hughes)’,
Tobacco Control, 12, 3: 340-341.
Hooker, C., 2003. Review of Malaria: Poverty, Race and Public Health in the United States
(Margaret Humphreys), Metascience, 12, 3: 381-384.
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Hooker, C., 2002. ‘Diphtheria, immunisation and the Bundaberg tragedy: a study in public
health in Australia’, Health and History, 2: 52-78.
Hooker, C., and Bashford, A., 2002. ‘Diphtheria and Australian Public Health: Bacteriology
and its complex applications, c.1890-1930’, Medical History, 46: 41-64.
Hooker, C., 2001. The importance of ideas of community in early Australian infectious
disease control’, Locality, Spring: 7-10.
Hooker, C. 2001. ‘Dr Ida Brown and the development of Australian palaeontology’,
Australasian Science, 22, 12: 46
Hooker, C., 2000. ‘Review of Profiles: Australian women scientists’, Historical Records of
Australian Science, 13 (2), December.
Hooker, C., 2000. ‘Joyce Winifred Vickery and Taxonomic Botany in Australia’, Australasian
Science, 21, 7: 46
Hooker, C., 2000. ‘Marjorie Shiels (née Collins) 1895-1970: Pioneering Ecologist’,
Australasian Science, 20, 5: 46
Hooker, C., 1999. ‘Community and Medicine: Diphtheria Management and Public Health in
Australia, 1858 -1895’, Occasional Papers in the History of Medicine No. 9, Sydney
[not numbered].
Other Publications
Hooker, C. & Fitzpatrick S., 2016, book review: ‘Illness as many Narratives: Arts, Medicine
and Culture’, posted on June 22, 2016 by the Centre for Medical Humanities
Hooker, C. & Sear, M. 2015, Irresistible forces: reflections on the history of women in
Australian science, 1 September, The People & Environment Blog (Pateblog),
National Museum of Australia (commissioned piece)
Hooker, C & Ivory, K. 2015, Medicine needs to swallow a bitter pill for a healthier future,
The Conversation, 13 Mar 2015; republished on 17 Mar 2015 as 'Boys club' needs to
swallow a bitter pill in 6Minutes, a daily newsletter sent to Australian GPs and other
healthcare professionals.
Hooker, C., & Leask J., 2014, Listen up, health officials – here’s how to reduce ‘Ebolanoia’
The Conversation, 6 Nov 2014; republished on croakey, the Crikey health blog on 7 Nov
2014 and cross-posted to The Communication Initiative (CI) Network – The Drum Beat
on 5 Jan 2015.
Hooker, C., 2010. Medicine and Human Flourishing, RACP News, 30, 2:16-17
Hooker, C., (various years) ‘Georgina King’, ‘Joyce Winifred Vickery’, ‘Sarah Elizabeth
Hynes’, ‘Ruby Payne Scott’ (with Miller Goss) Australian Dictionary of Biography
Hooker, C., 2000, ‘Lady Jane Franklin and Scientific Collecting’, Australian Antique
Collector, December 1999 – June 2000: pp. 118-120. (Commissioned work)
Hooker, C., 2000, ‘The Hunt and the Home: Women scientific collectors’, Australian Antique
Collector, December 1999 – June 2000, pp. 156-160. (Commissioned work)
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Teaching, Supervision & Mentoring
Teaching
2016
QUAL5002 Qualitative Methodologies and Study Design
QUAL5004 Designing a Qualitative Research Project
2016
Intensive Training in the Medical Humanities and Professionalism,
Medical students from Yeungnam University, Daegu Korea
2014 – date
BMRI 5001 History and Philosophy of Brain and Mind
PUBH5034 Capstone project
BETH 5207 Arts and Health
PUBH 5422 Health and Risk Communication
MMHU 6902 Independent Study
Guest lectures in history of health and medicine, public health ethics,
qualitative health research methods, history and philosophy of science
2008- 13
Coordinator, Masters of Medical Humanities coursework degree
MMHU 6901 Medicine and War
MMHU 6902 Independent Study
MMHU 6903 Key Concepts in Medical Humanities
MMHU 6905 Medicine and Music
MMHU 6906 Bodies on Display: Medicine, Museums, Art
MMHU 6908 Dignity
MMHU 6910 Literature, Narrative and Medicine
MMHU 6911 Spirituality, Medicine and health care
PSYC 5012 Health Communication: Risks, Decisions
HPSC 4102 History of Medicine
Guest lectures in history of health and medicine, public health ethics,
qualitative health research methods, history and philosophy of science
2010-12
Intensive Training in the Medical Humanities and Professionalism,
Medical students from Yeungnam University, Daegu Korea
2010-11
Specialist course in History of Medicine, Royal Australasian College of
Physicians
2007
Fixed term contracts
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WGS 261Y Scientific Constructions of Sex and Gender (University of
Toronto)
SOC 354H1 Emergent Issues in Health and Social Policy
2006
Guest lecturing and Fixed term contracts
Introduction to Sociology; Comparative Welfare Societies; Public Health
Ethics; Issues in Biomedicine (University of Sydney)
4050 Issues in Qualitative Research (York University)
351 Health Communication (University of Toronto)
2004 - 05
Sidney Sax Travelling Postdoctoral Fellowship in Public Health, resident
in Canada
2003
Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney
HPSC 3007
HPSC 2001
HPSC 3005
HPSC 4103
2002
Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney
HPSC 3004
HPSC 4105
HPSC 2001
HPSC 3002
HPSC 4103
2001
Science and Ethics
What Is This Thing Called Science?
From Anthrax to AIDS: Science and government in disease
Sociology of Science
From Einstein to Frankenstein: the social relations of science.
Research Methods in the History and Philosophy of Science:
The status of evidence
What Is This Thing Called Science?
The Germs of Power: Disease, theories of causation, and
public health from the black plague to AIDS.
Quarrels, Consensus and Play: The negotiation of scientific
knowledge
Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney
HPSC 4301
HPSC 3002
Sociology of Science
The Germs of Power: Disease, theories of causation, and
public health from the black plague to AIDS.
Research Student Supervision
Current
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PhD students
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Seamus Barker, Critical perspectives on pain
2014
Elizabeth van Ekert, The Silent Narrative: Understanding doctors'
experiences of complaints made against them
Siun Gallagher, Coping with a competitive health system: learning
experiences and tips for clinician lobbyist
2014
Paul Bennett, Values in ENRICH, an arts-based clinical education
program.
2014
David Levy, Homeopathic clinical reasoning in Australia: A
phenomenological study PhD candidate
2008
Awarded
PhD students
Scott Fitzpatrick, Talking suicide: A critical examination of narrative and
the (re)moralization of suicidology. 2013
2008
2013
Peter Hobbins, Venom and vivisection in the colonial antipodes. 2013.
(Associate supervisor) Prize awarded: Rita and John Cornforth Medal for
PhD Achievement & Community Contribution
2008
2013
Louise Stone, Assessing the patient with mixed emotional and physical
symptoms: examining differences in clinical reasoning strategies and
diagnostic frameworks between GP supervisors and registrars, PhD
candidate
2007
2014
Jillian Gates Aesthetics for Visual Arts in Hospitals: A comparative case
study between Balmain and Wyong Hospitals 2009.
2006
2009
2012
2013
Kruthika Narayan, Exploring Children's Dignity- A Qualitative and
Philosophical Approach Medicine Honours thesis. 2011
2010
2011
Annie Parsons Narrative approaches to sustaining patient dignity,
Medicine Honours thesis. 2010
2010
2010
Dan Gorman The Physiology and Pathogenesis Theories of Thomas Willis
and His Application of them to Melancholy Medicine Honours thesis 2009.
2008
2009
Inas Karaki, Cadaver donation and use in medical education in Lebanon,
HPS Honours thesis 2006
2006
2006
Andrew Collishaw, The Concept of Disease: A General Medical Practice
and Homeopathic Medicine Perspective, HPS Honours thesis 2002
2002
2002
Anita Jacobson, The Gene Screen, HPS Honours thesis, 2001
2001
2001
MPhil Students
Bruce Short, Robert Robertson: An exploration of fevrology and eighteenth
century naval medicine. 2013
Honours Students
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Professional Contributions (Service)
Conference Participation
Hooker, C., 2015, Thread #3, The Sydney Conference, Macquarie University 22-24 July
Hooker, C., 2015, Moving the Space of Safety: Hospital infection control as a collective
achievement, COMET, Hong Kong 23-25 June 2015
Ivory, K, Hooker, C., and Mooney-Somers, J. 2015, Using twitter with a poster as a novel data
collection strategy, COMET, Hong Kong 23-25 June 2015
Ivory, K, Hooker, C., Macneill, P, Dwyer, P, and Scott, K., Grace Under Pressure: Enacting
professionalism in medicine, workshop, 2015, COMET, Hong Kong 23-25 June 2015
Hooker, C, Hor, S, Iedema, R, Wyer, M, Jorm, C, Gilbert, L and O Sullivan M. Hospital
Infection Control as Movements in Time and Space. COMET (Hong Kong, June 25-27)
Hooker, C., 2015, The Performance and Art of Health AND Avoiding Othering: literature,
ethics and health, Dialogues in Health Humanities, Charles Perkins Centre, University
of Sydney, 10 Feb.
Iedema, R., Hor, S., Wyer, M. Gilbert, L., Jorm, C., O’Sullivan, M., Hooker, C. 2014.
Visualising infection risk to strengthen clinicians’ infection control. BMJ-IHI
International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare, Paris, 9-11 April.
Hooker C. 2014. ' Empathy, Ethics and the Arts in Healthcare, The Art of Good Health and
Wellbeing’, International Arts and Health Conference, National Gallery of Victoria 1113 November
Ivory K., Hooker C. and Mooney-Somers J., 2014. 'Not all consultations are equal:
Confronting challenging conversations in general practice' RACGP (Royal Australian
College of General Practitioners) GP14 conference 9-11 October, Adelaide
Hor S, Perisa M, Iedema R, Gilbert L, O’Sullivan M, Jorm C, Hooker C. 2013. The Five
Moments made real: A new approach to hand hygiene education. Australasian College
for Infection Prevention and Control Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 30 September –
2 October
Leask J, Hooker C. 2013. Keynote address. ‘Effective communication strategies during an
infectious disease event’ Sheela Basrur Symposium, Toronto, Canada 3 April
Dowd K., Taylor M., Toribio J. A., Hooker C. and DhandN. 2012. ‘Zoonotic diseases: Vets’
perceptions and infection control practices’, AVA, May
Hooker, C., 2012. ‘Values and ethics in vaccine-related risks’. World Congress on Risk,
Sydney, Australia, July 18-20
Hooker, C., 2012. Talking about risk, Seminar: Ethical Issues in Immunisation, University of
Sydney, March 26
Hooker, C., 2011. ‘Culture and the Medical Humanities’, Beijing Forum, November
Hooker, C., 2011. ‘Medical Humanities – New research Directions’ research colloquium,
Centre for Medical Humanities, Kings College, Durham, September
Hooker, C., 2010. ‘Amplifiers for Disease: Options for disease control’ SIEID Conference,
May 19
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Hooker C., Gordon J., 2010. ‘Medical Humanities: Their Role in Education, Training and
Continuing Professional Development’, World Congress of Internal Medicine,
Melbourne, Australia 20–25 March
Hooker, C., 2010. Isolated Cases: 100 years of medical research in Australia, Session Chair
and Opening and Closing remarks, Symposium at University of Sydney, 21 February
2010
Leask J, Hooker C. 2009. Plenary: ‘Journalists on the pandemic threat.’ Australasian Medical
Writer’s Association Conference, Sydney, October
Hooker, C., 2009. Chair, Medical Humanities, The Art of Good Health and Wellbeing, Port
Macquarie, November 9-14
Hooker, C., 2009. Chair, Medical Humanities, Arts/Health Pain/Pleasure, second Arts and
Health Conference, Newcastle, October 9
Hooker, C., 1999. Conference Organiser, Contagion. (This international conference of 100
attendees resulted in my coedited volume of the same name).
Hooker, C., 1998. Conference Organiser, Australian Historical Association Biennial
Conference, 500 attendees.
Hooker, C., 1998. ‘The Problem of Gender and Physics’, After the Body, international
conference at the University of Manchester.
Hooker, C., 1997. Organiser, NSW History Week Conference
Extracurricular Events’ Organisation
2015, 10 Dec:
PEI Symposium Structures of survival: Managing emerging
infectious diseases in the twenty first century
The outbreak of Ebolavirus disease, which spread widely across three
West African nations in 2014, and the delay and subsequent difficulty
controlling it, offered a sobering preview of the potential impacts of other
emerging or drug resistant infectious diseases in the twenty first century.
This symposium examined how socioeconomic, cultural and political
systems contribute to the emergence, transmission and control of
infectious diseases. It explored the contexts that contribute to infectious
disease outbreaks and to surviving them.
Speakers included Professor Lyn Gilbert, infectious diseases physician
and clinical microbiologist; Professor Angus Dawson, Director, Centre of
Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM), School of Public
Health at the University of Sydney.
2015, 26 Aug:
Reclaiming the Knowledge Commons: The ethics of academic
publishing, State Library of NSW
This one day symposium gathered leading academics and industry
representatives to discuss: the current harmful consequences the
commodification of the publication of scholarship and research; and
asked the questions: How should those involved in serious research
behave ethically in the current publishing environment? What new
options can technology make possible? Participants included Dr Alex
Byrne (Chief Librarian SLNSW); Prof Stephen Leeder; Paul Komesaroff;
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Prof Paul James; Dr Virginia Barbour (Director, AOASG); and
representatives from ARC, Sage and Wiley.
2011, 11 Oct:
Arts in Health and Medicine: Developing a Research Agenda. A
partnership between the Medical Humanities, Sydney University, and
the Arts and Health Foundation.
NSW universities involved in arts and health practice and research were
invited to share and initiate discussion on the breadth and scope of the
sector and to consider some of the core principles that may be a
benchmark for evaluation and research. This event formed the basis for
the development of a NSW network of the arts in health & medicine.
Presenters included Prof David Bennett, The Children’s Hospital at
Westmead, Paul Bennett, Health Education Officer, Broken Hill
University Department of Rural Health, Kris Smith, Associate Lecturer,
School of Drama Fine Art and Music, University of Newcastle, Dr
Stewart Dunn and Dr Paul Heinrich, University of Sydney and Pam
McClean Communication Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital
2010, 13-14 Oct:
Dr Esther Sternberg in Conversation. A collaborative event between
VELiM, the Arts and Health Foundation, the Centre for Arts and Health,
University of Newcastle, and the Faculty of Architecture, University of
Sydney; 2 public talks with local experts:
1) Healing Spaces: Museum of Contemporary Art, 13 Oct, Dr
Sternberg in conversation with Prof David Bennett, Children’s
Hospital Westmead, and Prof Diane Jones, Director, PTW
Architects
2) Emotions, the Brain and the Body, 14 Oct, Dr Sternberg in
conversation with Prof Ian Hickie, Director of the Brain and
Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney
2010, 22 Jun:
‘Wrong Side of the Bus’ film screening & discussion
THE FILM: “Melbourne psychiatrist Sidney Bloch returns to South
Africa, the country of his birth, with his teenage son. Sid has been
plagued by guilt for “not doing enough” when segregation was
introduced during the apartheid era more than 40 years ago. Now he’s in
search of forgiveness. As a young medical student Sid Bloch sat with
black South Africans on the ‘wrong side of the bus’ when segregation
was introduced, but his protest was short-lived and his guilt over his
inactivity is compounded by his heritage: he's the son of LithuanianJews persecuted by the Nazis. More than 40 years later he reunites with
his South African fellow students, and meets political activists and exprisoners including a hero of the freedom movement Albie Sachs. These
encounters challenge and help him to make peace with his own
conscience.” ABC Compass
DISCUSSANTS: Sidney Bloch, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry,
Adjunct Emeritus Professor in the Centre for Health and Society, and
Senior Fellow, School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Sociology at the
University of Melbourne; Miles Little, Founding Director of the Centre
for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, Emeritus Professor of
Surgery at the Sydney Medical School; Danielle Celermajer, director of
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the Asia Pacific Masters of Human Rights and Democratisation, a
European Union funded project establishing networked postgraduate
human rights education across the Asia Pacific Region; and the film’s
producer Rod Freedman.
2010, 21 Feb:
Conference Chair: Isolated Cases? - 100 Years of Medical Research
in Australia. A collaborative event between VELiM, the Royal Prince
Alfred Hospital Museum and the Department of History, University of
Sydney.
Marking the centenary of the establishment of the Australian Institute of
Tropical Medicine, this one-day colloquium encompassed the history of
medical research in Australia from the 19th century to the present.
Honorary Address: Prof Donald Metcalf, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
Historical Comment: Emeritus Prof Rod Home, University of Melbourne
Professional Development Talks
Macneill, P., Dywer, P, Scott, K, Ivory, K and Hooker, C. 2015. Grace Under Pressure:
Enacting professionalism in medicine, Grand Rounds, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, 14
August
Hooker, C., 2010 - 2012: Intensive Training in the Medical Humanities and Professionalism,
Medical students from Yeungnam University, Daegu Korea
Hooker, C., 2011. ‘Medical Humanities – New research Directions’ research colloquium,
Centre for Medical Humanities, Kings College, Durham, September
Hooker, C., 2010 and 2011: Specialist course in History of Medicine, Royal Australasian
College of Physicians
Hooker, C., 2010, ‘Parallel Chart and Ventriloquist Postures: How to do narrative medicine’
RPAH Medical Grand Rounds, May 14
Hooker, C., 2010. ‘Media ethics during disease outbreaks’ at the Workshop on Infectious
Diseases, Security and Ethics, Sydney, 4-5 February. ARC funded/ National Centre for
Biosecurity.
Hooker, C., 2009. ‘Thinking through balance’, VELiM Conversation series
Hooker, C., 2009. ‘Risk discourses in cancer policy’, Medical research seminar series,
University of Western Sydney
Hooker, C., 2009, ‘Behave Yourself: lay perceptions of cancer risk’, workshops held with the
Cancer Councils of NSW, Victoria and Western Australia
Hooker, C., 2008. ‘Risk in Cancer Policy’, invited by the History and Philosophy of Science
seminar series, University of Sydney
Hooker, C., 2008, ‘Behave Yourself Part 1’, core group meeting, Centre for Values, Ethics
and Law in Medicine
Hooker, C., 2008. ‘Behave Yourself Part II’, 14th International Qualitative Health Research
Conference, Banff, Alberta
Hooker, C., 2008. ‘Writing the Risk of Cancer’, Medical Humanities, Dalhousie University,
Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Hooker, C., 2008. ‘Cancer Risk and Cancer Policy’, Health Sciences, University of Ottawa,
Ontario
Hooker, C., 2008. ‘Writing the Risk of Cancer’, Public Health Sciences, University of
Toronto, Ontario
Hooker, C., 2006. Organiser and speaker, Pandemics and the Media, seminar at School for
Public Health, University of Toronto
Hooker, C., 2006. ‘Responding to Health Scares: Recent Historical Lessons’, Royal
Australasian College of Physicians.
Hooker, C., 2005. Guest participant, SARS and the City workshop
Hooker, C., 2005. ‘Health Scares and the History of Risk’, Institute for the History and
Philosophy of Science, University of Toronto
Hooker, C., 2005. ‘Health Scares: Professional Priorities’, poster School of Public Health
Research day.
Hooker, C., 2005. ‘Comparison of Qualitative and Historical Research Methods’, Qualitative
Inquiry Group, University of Toronto
Hooker, C., 2004. Participant, qualitative methods research group, University of Toronto
Hooker, C., 2004. ‘Workshop in risk communication’, invited by the Niagara Region Health Unit
Hooker, C., 2004. ‘Women in Physics’, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, New Mexico
Hooker C, Grossman J. 2003. ‘How to Feyerabend: Against Method but for Dada?’, Research
Seminar Series, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney
Hooker, C., 2002. Organiser, research seminar series, HPS
Hooker, C., 2002 ‘Medicine and Agriculture: unexplored links in the history of Australian
intellectual history and public health policy’, History of Medicine seminar, University of
Sydney.
Hooker, C., 2002. ‘Exploring Gender, Biology and Intimacy: Women in the Resurgence of
Systematics in Botany and Zoology in Australia, 1930-1960’, Australasian Association
for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science.
Hooker, C., 2002. ‘Underlying our modern world: Georgina King and feminist failures’, HPS
Seminar Series.
Hooker, C., 2001. ‘Gender and Gifts in Australian geology’, Australasian Association for the
History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science, Melbourne
Hooker, C., 2001. ‘Communicating Sex? Sexual health advertising in Australia’, Australasian
Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science, Melbourne
Hooker, C., 2001. ‘Beyond Kuhn and Feyerabend: the philosophy of science’, NSW
Astronomy Society.
Hooker, C. & Jill Levenberg, 2000. ‘Carrying Defects: Risk, Responsibility and Social Policy
in Early Twentieth Century Australia’, Risk and Responsibility, University of Sydney.
Hooker, C. 2000. ‘The Drink of Death or Nature’s Perfect Food: Governing Milk and
Contagion’, Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of
Science.
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Hooker, C. 1999. ‘A Geology of the Modern World: Georgina King and the politics of
amateur science’, Winner of the 2000 Max Kelly Medal
Hooker, C. 1999. ‘Natural Vision: gendered spaces in colonial science’, In/Between,
University of Sydney.
Hooker, C. 1999. ‘Diphtheria and Immunisation in Building Australian public health’,
Australian Society for the History of Medicine, University of Sydney
Hooker, C. & Michelle Arrow, 1997. ‘Not A Job In The Ordinary Sense: Rethinking Middle
Class Women and Work’, Mass Historia, University of Melbourne.
Hooker, C. 1997. ‘Feminism and Science: Voices from the past’, Feminism in Transit II,
Australian National University, Canberra.
Hooker, C. 1996. ‘Joining the Academy: Australian women scientists and professionalisation’,
Mass Historia, University of Sydney.
Hooker, C. 1995-6. Organiser, History reading group and seminar series
University Service
2014 -15
Chair, Politics and Ethics of Infection node, Marie Bashir Institute for
Infectious Disease and Biosecurity
2014-
Member of SRC committee
2007 -
VELiM staff and teaching committees
2015
Leader and participant in Charles Perkins Centre Health Humanities Node
2014 -
Multiple mini interviews (MMI) for medical school entry
2007-
Consultation and contribution and teaching in the Sydney MD/ Graduate
Medical Program
2010
Coordinator of weekly Conversation series at VELiM
2008-10
Faculty of Medicine Coursework Coordinators meeting
Visiting Scholars
2016
Teaching health humanities to a group of 10
medical students from Yeungnam Medical
School, Taegue, South Korea
2015
Assistant Professor YuYu Guo, Dashiqiao
Community, Xuanwu, Nanjing PR China
2010
Prof DaeHyun Kim, Department of Family
Medicine, School of Medicine, Keimyung
University, Daegu, Korea
2009
Prof Young-Hwan Lee, Department of Medical
Education, Department of Pediatrics, College of
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Teaching medical
humanities to medical
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Medicine, Yeungnam University, Daegu, Korea
students
Dr Tri Harnoto, Gadja Mahda University,
Indonesia
Physician experience
and narrative
Community Service
Arts and health / medical humanities community: support, advocacy, service
2015 -
Organiser. Art for Health and Wellbeing workshop, Broken Hill University
Department of Rural Health, June 1-2; produced an Art brief for the School Health
Hubs which has been incorporated into the health hub design
2011 -
Annual partnership projects with Institute for Creative Health
2009-10
Event club; monthly specialist medical humanities events e.g. guided labyrinth
walk
2008-09
Book club
2007-09
Organization of nascent Medical Humanities Association in Australia
2007-
Provision of advice to practitioners and scholars around Australia and south east
Asia, registering Colleges
2007-10
Contributor, South East Asian Humanities in Medicine newsletter and organization
2007-
Liaison with relevant groups e.g. Australian Doctors Orchestra, Creative Doctors
Network, art doctors
2007-
Special events: film nights, visiting speakers
2007-11
Monthly newsletter
2007-11
Maintenance of website with jobs, book reviews, community events, publications
and discussions
Media appearances
2016: Theatre skills help doctors play the role and address workplace bullying, ABC Central
West. Claire Hooker being cited by Melanie Pearce.
2014: What are the critical health issues for G20 leaders? Croakey, the Crikey health blog,
Interview with Michelle Hughes, 13 Nov
2004: Dr Joyce Vickery - Forensic Botanist, ABC The Science Show, Interview with Robyn
Williams, 24 July
Peer Review & Editorial Responsibilities
2011-15
Editorial Board Australian Feminist Studies
2010-15
Editorial Board BMJ Medical Humanities
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2010
Reviewer of Australian Laureate Fellowships, ARC
2005
Classed as international expert reviewer for the Australia Research Council
(ARC) and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).
2003-
Review of grant applications, ARC and NHMRC
2001 -
Journal article peer review for:
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
Critical Public Health
Health: an interdisciplinary journal of health and society
Health and History
Health, Risk and Society
Isis
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
Metascience
Pluto Press
Risk Analysis
Professional Memberships
2014-date,
2009
Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law (AABHL)
2008-date
(Australian) Association for the Medical Humanities (AMH)
2008-date,
1997-2001
Australasian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine (ANZSHM)
1998-2001
History of Science society (HSS)
1996-2001
Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
(AAHPSSS)
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