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DR HELEN MACDONALD



Contact Details

Organization: Historical Studies
Position: Honorary (Fellow)
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Homepage: http://www.australian.unimelb.edu.au/aboutus/people/macdonald.html
Work: 83444927
Room: 221
Level: 02
Building: 147-151 Barry St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
The cultural history of human dissection, post-mortem examinations and organ transplantation Australia, England, Scotland

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts (honours) Monash University 31-Dec-1991
Master of Arts University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1997
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-2002

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
POSSESSING THE DEAD, THE ARTFUL SCIENCE OF ANATOMY Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005

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 2007

Journal Articles

  • "Humanity's discards": The New South Wales Anatomy Act 1881
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Mortality
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 365-382
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  • A Scandalous Act: Regulating Anatomy in a British Settler Colony, Tasmania 1869
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Social History of Medicine
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 39-56
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  • Possessing Bodies
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Meanjin
    Volume: 66
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 88-96
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Major Reference Works

  • Dictionary of Medical Biography; Volume 4; M - R:Mackenzie, William Colin
    Year: 2007
    Reference Work Title: Dictionary of Medical Biography; Volume 4; M - R
    Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group(Westport)
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Publications in 2006

Books

  • Human Remains: Dissection and its Histories
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: Yale University Press(New Haven)
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Journal Articles

  • Into the Archives: Child Sexual Abuse, Van Dieman's Land, 1838
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Domestic Violence & Incest Resource Centre Newsletter
    Volume: summer
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 28-35
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  • Under Your Skin
    Year: 2006
    Journal: New Scientist
    Volume: 190
    Issue: 2550
    Page numbers: 51
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Publications in 2005

Books

  • Human Remains: Episodes in Human Dissection
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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Journal Articles

Publications in 2004

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Publications in 2003

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