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DR HANS BAER



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Organization: Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry
Position: SENIOR LECTURER - DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
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Homepage: http://www.sages.unimelb.edu.au/staff/baer.html
Work: 8344 0622
Room: 153
Level: 01
Building: 207 Bouverie St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
medical pluralism in US, UK, and Australia Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Doctor of Anthropology University of Utah 13-May-1976
Anthropology University of Nebraska-Lincoln 15-Dec-1971
Engineering Mechanics Pennsylvania State University 04-Sep-1966

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Australian Anthropological Society Fellow 01-Jul-2006
Member Australian Sociological Association Fellow 01-Aug-2006

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) University of Arkansas at Little Rock Faculty Research Award, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences 05-May-1989
Prize Critical Anthropology of Health Caucus Rudolf Virchow Prize 11-Nov-1994
Other (Award) National Institute of Drug Abuse Research Fellowship 01-Aug-2002
Other (Award) National Institute of Mental Health Post-doctoral Fellowship in Medical Anthropology 01-Jul-1979
Other (Award) German Democratic Republic Fulbright Fellowship 15-Jul-1988

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Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

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Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • A critical anthropological perspective on the impact of global warming on health and human societies: an op-ed essay
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Medical Anthropology
    Volume: 27
    Page numbers: 2-8
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  • Comparison of treatment of HIV patients in naturopathic and biomedical settings
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Complementary Health Practice Review
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 182-197
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  • Editorial: Towards a critical anthropology on the impact of global warming on health and human societies
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Medical Anthropology
    Volume: 27
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 2-8
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  • The Australian dominative medical system: a reflection of social relations in the larger society
    Year: 2008
    Journal: The Australian Journal of Anthropology
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 252-271
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  • The emergence of integrative medicine in Australia: The growing interest of biomedicine and nursing in complementary medicine in a southern developed society
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Medical Anthropology Quarterly
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 52-66
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  • The emerging climate justice movement in Australia: engaged anthropology and knowledge transfer at Melbourne
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Australian Anthropological Society Newsletter
    Volume: 111
    Issue: September
    Page numbers: 7-9
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  • The growing legitimation of complementary medicine in Australia: successes and dilemmas
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Australian Journal of Medical Herbalism
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 5-11
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Interdisciplinary approaches to global warming: a dialogue between climate science and anthropology
    Year: 2008
    Event name: The Impact of Global Warming on the Environmental and Human Societies
    Conference Publication: Interdisciplinary apporaches to global warming: a dialogue between climate science and anthropology
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-4
    Publisher: The University of Melbourne(Parkville)
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  • Towards a critical anthropology of global warming: a challenge for the 21st century
    Year: 2008
    Event name: The Impact of Global Warming on the Environmental and Human Societies
    Conference Publication: Towards a critical anthropology of gloval warming: a challenge for the 21st century
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 15-20
    Publisher: The University of Melbourne(Parkville)
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Publications in 2007

Books

  • Introducing medical anthropology: a discipline in action
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: AltaMira Press(Walnut Creek)
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Book Chapters

  • Complementary and alternative medicine
    Year: 2007
    Book: The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Massachusetts)
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Journal Articles

  • The drive for legitimation in Chinese medicine and acupuncture in Australia: successes and dilemmas
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Complementary Health Practice Review
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 87-98
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  • Why is the Australian Government interested in complementary medicine?  A case study of economic rationalism
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Complementary Health Practice Review
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 167-178
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • The drive for legitimation by osteopathy and chiropractic in Australia: between heterodoxy and orthodoxy
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Complementary Health Practice Review
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 1-18
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  • The drive for legitimation in Australian naturopathy: successes and dilemmas
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Social Science & Medicine
    Volume: 63
    Page numbers: 1771-1783
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Publications in 2004

Books

  • Toward an integrative medicine: merging alternative therapies with biomedicine
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: AltaMira Press(Walnut Creek)
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Book Chapters

  • Divergences in the evolution of osteopathy in four Anglophone countries: the United States, Canada, Britain, and Australia
    Year: 2004
    Book: Healing by hand: manual medicine and bonesetting in global perspective
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Publications in 2003

Books

  • Medical anthropology and the world system
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Praeger Publishers(Westport)
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Journal Articles

  • The work of Andrew Weil and Deepak Chopra - two holistic health/new age gurus: a critique of the holistic
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Medical Anthropology Quarterly
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 233-250
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Publications in 2002

Books

  • African American religion: varieties of protest and accommodation
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: University of Tennessee Press(Knoxville)
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Publications in 2001

Books

  • Biomedicine and alternative healing systems in America
    Year: 2001
    Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press(Wisconsin)
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Journal Articles

  • The sociopolitical status of US naturopathy at the dawn of the 21st century
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Medical Anthropology Quarterly
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 329-346
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