{"title":"Dementia and Old Age Mental Health: A History of Services in Australia by Brian Draper (review)","authors":"C. Hunter","doi":"10.1353/hah.2023.a904718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2023.a904718","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43888183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction","authors":"James Dunk","doi":"10.1353/hah.2023.a904709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2023.a904709","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42434502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflections on My Time at the Melville Clinic","authors":"B. Healy","doi":"10.1353/hah.2023.a904716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2023.a904716","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42360486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Colagiuri, R. Wilkinson, Catherine Storey, Andrew Cuthbertson, Clive N. Bennett, Studley Lush, E. Cox, M. Bootcov, C. Coleborne
{"title":"100 Years of Insulin in Australia","authors":"S. Colagiuri, R. Wilkinson, Catherine Storey, Andrew Cuthbertson, Clive N. Bennett, Studley Lush, E. Cox, M. Bootcov, C. Coleborne","doi":"10.1353/hah.2023.a904714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2023.a904714","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 1921, Frederick Banting and his colleagues in Toronto, Canada, first used insulin for managing type 1 diabetes. Insulin transformed the disease from a death sentence to a chronic condition requiring life-long management. News of the development spread fast, and Australia became an early therapeutic adoptor and manufacturer of insulin; the same year Australian physicians were experimenting with insulin. An estimated 1.8 million Australians live with diabetes; it remains a significant health problem for First Nations Australians. In this witness seminar, the achievements of the first 100 years of insulin are celebrated.","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45619076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Virus on the March?: Military Model and Metaphor in the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Warwick Anderson","doi":"10.1353/hah.2023.a904708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2023.a904708","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:What should a medical historian say when an army general calls, asking for advice on a vaccine rollout during a pandemic? For generations, we have heard warnings of the dangers of facile resort to war metaphors in dealing with epidemic disease. But what if public health originally derived from military models, from martial modes of defence against adversaries? What if militarisation is just business as usual? Increasingly, our response to modern crises, whether bushfires, floods, or pandemics, involves calling in the military. But the military metaphors and models that guide our interventions have varied over time and place. Some have worked better than others. Some have been less coercive than others. Medical historians thus can help counsel a sensitive general in search of the lessons of public health's pasts—even as they reflect critically on how such 'lessons' might themselves frame our thinking on the pandemic.","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43400805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reciprocity between Nurses and a Remote Rural Community from 1912 to 2021","authors":"K. Whitehead","doi":"10.1353/hah.2023.a904707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2023.a904707","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This historical study explores the relationships between nurses and a remote rural community, namely Marree in South Australia. Since 1912, Marree's nurses, mostly working singlehandedly, have provided general, midwifery, emergency, and public health services in a community marked by ongoing inequalities between white, Afghan, and Aboriginal people. A 'cottage hospital' was built with local funds in 1916, and the comprehensive health service became the focus of inkind support and community fundraising. The article highlights the reciprocity between the nurses and residents of Marree and surrounding pastoral stations, and demonstrates that Marree's nurses and health clinic continue to be integral to the contemporary community's identity.","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42039564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Aftermath Psychiatry to Lattermath Psychiatry, or from Deinstitutionalisation to Community-Centric Mental Health Services, and now to Mental Health Care Ecosystems: Beyond Symbols, Stereotypes, and Stigma of Home Visiting and Assertive Community Teams","authors":"A. Rosen","doi":"10.1353/hah.2022.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2022.0023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44926706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Selection of Poems","authors":"Tim Heffernan","doi":"10.1353/hah.2022.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2022.0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42144006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflections on the 30th Anniversary of the Establishment New South Wales Consumer Advisory Group – Mental Health","authors":"Janet Meagher","doi":"10.1353/hah.2022.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2022.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45814320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Melville Clinic, A Utopian Experiment in Community Mental Health Services: What Was New and What Survived?","authors":"A. Westmore","doi":"10.1353/hah.2022.0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2022.0040","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 1975 Melville Clinic opened as an experimental community mental health centre in the ethnically-diverse, working-class inner Melbourne suburb of Brunswick. It was established with funding support from the Victorian and Commonwealth governments and was intended to test and refine elements of a community care model that was starting to provide an alternative to entrenched systems of mental hospital care. Developing alongside and extending on European and United States interpretations of the model, Melville Clinic was designed as a force for innovation in the areas of clinical work style, staff roles, organisational structure, and geographic positioning within the community it served. It also aspired to novel types of involvement in community work, multicultural sensitivity, collection of evidence about its performance, and timely self-evaluation. This paper scrutinises the bumpy course of its experimental strategies over the course of seven years during which the clinic retained some of its innovations, divested itself of others, while also changing key aspects of the way it delivered public community-based mental health services. A candid self-evaluation published in 1982 reflected insights gained during the experiment. From a present-day perspective the clinic, now defunct, provides a useful case study of community-based care at an important stage in the evolution of public mental health service formulation and delivery in Australia.","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49240854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}