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DR ANDREA WHITTAKER



Contact Details

Organization: Asia Institute
Position: LECTURER-WOMEN'S HEALTH & GENDER STUDIES
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Homepage: http://www.asiainstitute.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff/whittaker.html
Work: 8344 3558
Fax: 9349 4870
Room: 226
Level: 02
Building: Sidney Myer Asia Centre
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Abortion, Buddhism and the state in Thailand abortion, reproductive health, medical anthropology, Thailand Thailand
Infertility, IVF and reproductive tourism infertility, reproductive tourism, new reproductive technologies, medical anthropology, Thailand Thailand
Australian family formation decisions family formation, demography, partnering, childbearing, Australia Australia
Reproductive travel IVF, reproductive technologies, reproduction Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, India
Medical travel cross border health care, cardiac surgery, orthopaedic surgery Thailand, Malaysia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Thailand Institute for Population and Social Research - Mahidol University Exchange, Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts (honours) The University of Queensland 21-Dec-1989
Doctor of Philosophy The University of Queensland 07-Feb-1995

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member American Anthropological Association Member 04-Jul-1997
Member Society for Medical Anthropology, AAA Member, Rivers Prize Committee in Medical Anthropology 01-Jul-2008 30-Jun-2009
Council Asian Studies Association of Australia Council member 01-Jun-1998 01-Jun-2004
Member Asian Studies Association of Australia member 01-Jan-2006
Member Women's Caucus of the Asian Studies Association of Australia Editorial board of the Women in Asia Series 01-Jan-2004

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Medal Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia 31-Dec-2000
Scholarship National Thai Centre 31-Dec-1993
Other (Award) Australian Asian Research Award (AARA) 23-Nov-1992
Scholarship Walter and Eliza Hall Travelling Scholarship 17-May-1990
Other (Award) Australian Postgraduate Research Award (APRA) 14-Feb-1990
Medal Queensland University 10-Apr-1990

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
Infertility, ivf and reproductive tourism in Thailand and the region 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 2008

Journal Articles

  • Pleasure and pain: Medical travel in Asia
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Global Public Health: an international journal for research, policy and practice
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 271-290
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Choice and circumstance: Qualitative insights into contemporary childlessness in Australia
    Year: 2007
    Journal: European Journal of Population
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 111-143
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  • Forming relationships in Australia: Qualitative insights into a process important to human wellbeing
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Population Research
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 23-49
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  • Kathy Pan, sticks and pummelling: techniques used to induce abortion by Burmese women on the Thai border
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Social Science & Medicine
    Volume: 65
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 1512-1523
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  • Living together in Australia: Qualitative insights into a complex phenomenon
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Family Studies
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 202-223
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Publications in 2004

Books

  • Abortion, Sin and the State in Thailand.
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon(London)
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Book Chapters

  • Community capacity checklists: use cautiously amid complexity.
    Year: 2004
    Book: Community practices in Australia
    Publisher: Pearson Education(Frenchs Forest)
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Journal Articles

  • Controlling diabetes, controlling diabetics: moral language in the management of diabetes type 2.
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Social Science & Medicine
    Volume: 58
    Page numbers: 2371-2382
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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Major Reference Works

  • Reproductive health:Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures
    Year: 2004
    Reference Work Title: Reproductive health
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers(New York)
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  • Encyclopedia of medical anthropology:Health and Illness in the World's Cultures:Reproductive health
    Year: 2004
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of medical anthropology:Health and Illness in the World's Cultures
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers(New York)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Abortion law reform advocacy in Thailand
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Development
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 72-79
    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Publications in 2002

Books

  • Women's Health in Mainland Southeast Asia
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Haworth Press(New York)
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Book Chapters

  • The demise of birth attendants in Northeast Thailand: embodying tradition in modern times
    Year: 2002
    Book: Daughters of Hariti Childbirth and Female Healers in South and Southeast Asia
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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  • Water Serpents and Staying by the Fire: Markers of Maturity in a Northeast Thai Village
    Year: 2002
    Book: Coming of age in South and Southeast Asia : youth, courtship and sexuality
    Publisher: Curzon Press(Surrey)
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Journal Articles

  • Book review of Van Esterik, P Materializing Thailand
    Year: 2002
    Journal: The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 375-376
    Publisher: Australian National University(Canberra)
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  • Eliciting qualitative information about induced abortion: Lessons from Northeast Thailand
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Health Care for Women International
    Volume: 23
    Page numbers: 631-641
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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  • Heart trouble: Negotiating risk and identity in an Australian suburb
    Year: 2002
    Journal: The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 102-122
    Publisher: Australian National University(Canberra)
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  • Positioning Policy: The Epistemology of Social Capital and Its Application in Applied Rural Research in Australia
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Human Organization
    Volume: 61
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 252-261
    Publisher: The Society for Applied Anthropology(Oklahoma City)
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  • Reflections on gender, power and health in Mainland Southeast Asia
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Women and Health
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 1-6
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  • Reproducing inequalities: abortion policy and practice in Thailand
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Women and Health
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 101-119
    Publisher: Haworth Press(New York)
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  • The Struggle for Abortion Law Reform in Thailand
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Reproductive Health Matters
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 19
    Page numbers: 45-53
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Oxford)
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  • The truth of our day by day lives: abortion decision making in rural Thailand
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Culture, Health and Sexuality
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-20
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Conceiving the nation: Representations of abortion in Thailand
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Asian Studies Review
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 423-451
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
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  • Consulting about Consulting: challenges to effective consulting about public health research
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Health Expectations
    Volume: 4
    Page numbers: 209-212
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