Select Publications
Journal articles
1995, '‘A healthy lifestyle might be the death of you’: discourses on diet, cholesterol control and heart disease in the press and among the lay public', Sociology of Health & Illness, 17, pp. 477 - 494, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.ep10932547
,1995, '‘Panic bodies’: discourses on risk and HIV antibody testing', Sociology of Health & Illness, 17, pp. 89 - 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.ep10934489
,1995, 'D&S Forum', Discourse & Society, 6, pp. 302 - 304, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957926595006002014
,1995, 'Medical and health stories on the Sydney Morning Herald's front page', Australian Journal of Public Health, 19, pp. 501 - 508, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-6405.1995.tb00418.x
,1995, 'Perspectives on power, communication and the medical encounter: implications for nursing theory and practice', Nursing Inquiry, 2, pp. 157 - 163, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1800.1995.tb00166.x
,1995, 'The Embodied Computer/User', Body & Society, 1, pp. 97 - 112, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1357034X95001003006
,1995, 'EXHIBITION REVIEW', Nursing Inquiry, 2, pp. 188 - 189, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1800.1995.tb00173.x
,1994, 'Consumerism, commodity culture and health promotion', Health Promotion International, 9, pp. 111 - 118, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapro/9.2.111
,1994, '‘The Great Debate About Cholesterol’: Medical Controversy and the News Media', Journal of Sociology, 30, pp. 334 - 339, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/144078339403000307
,1994, 'Femininity, responsibility, and the technological imperative: Discourses on breast cancer in the Australian press', International Journal of Health Services, 24, pp. 73 - 89, http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/1B6J-1P5R-AXCR-MRNY
,1994, 'Food, memory and meaning: the symbolic and social nature of food events', The Sociological Review, 42, pp. 664 - 685, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.1994.tb00105.x
,1994, 'Panic computing: The viral metaphor and computer technology1', Cultural Studies, 8, pp. 556 - 568, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09502389400490361
,1994, 'The Condom in the Age of AIDS: Newly Respectable or Still a Dirty Word? A Discourse Analysis', Qualitative Health Research, 4, pp. 304 - 320, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/104973239400400304
,1994, 'Toward the Development of Critical Health Communication Praxis', Health Communication, 6, pp. 55 - 67, http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15327027hc0601_4
,1993, 'SOCIOLOGY FOR NURSES - AN AUSTRALIAN INTRODUCTION - SHORT,SD, SHARMAN,E, SPEEDY,S', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, 17, pp. 403 - 404, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1993NH51500039&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,1993, 'Back to complacency: AIDS in the Australian press, March-September 1990', Health Education Research, 8, pp. 5 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/her/8.1.5
,1993, 'AIDS risk and heterosexuality in the Australian press', Discourse & Society, 4, pp. 307 - 328, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957926593004003002
,1993, 'Back to bedlam? Chelmsford and the press', Australasian Psychiatry, 27, pp. 140 - 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00048679309072133
,1993, 'Choosing alternative therapy: an exploratory study of sociodemographic characteristics and motives of patients resident in Sydney', Australian Journal of Public Health, 17, pp. 135 - 144, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-6405.1993.tb00122.x
,1993, 'Is there life after Foucault? Poststructuralism and the health social sciences', Australian Journal of Public Health, 17, pp. 298 - 300, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-6405.1993.tb00157.x
,1993, 'Planned sexual behaviour of young Australian visitors to Thailand', Medical Journal of Australia, 158, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1993.tb121868.x
,1993, 'Risk as moral danger: The social and political functions of risk discourse in public health', International Journal of Health Services, 23, pp. 425 - 435, http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/16AY-E2GC-DFLD-51X2
,1993, 'The construction of patienthood in medical advertising', International Journal of Health Services, 23, pp. 805 - 819, http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/FPDH-CXKD-RJH3-8REJ
,1992, 'An alternative to 'health Leninism': broadening health advocacy activities.', Australian journal of public health, 16, pp. 330
,1992, 'From complacency to panic: AIDS and heterosexuals in the Australian press, July 1986 to June 1988', Health Education Research, 7, pp. 9 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/her/7.1.9
,1992, 'Discourse analysis: a new methodology for understanding the ideologies of health and illness', Australian Journal of Public Health, 16, pp. 145 - 150, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-6405.1992.tb00043.x
,1992, 'The establishment of mass mammographic screening programs: in whose interests?', The Australian journal of social issues, 27, pp. 112 - 124, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.1839-4655.1992.tb01281.x
,1991, 'Alcohol advertising in the entertainment mass media.', Australian journal of public health, 15, pp. 311
,1991, 'AIDS and the popular media: A new perspective at Florence', AIDS Care, 3, pp. 447 - 449, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540129108251607
,1991, 'Primary health care consumerism amongst elderly australians', Age and Ageing, 20, pp. 280 - 286, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ageing/20.4.280
,1991, 'Breaking Out of the Rut: The Use of Alternative Methodologies to Measure AIDS-Related Attitudes and Behaviour', International Journal of STD and AIDS, 2, pp. 450, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095646249100200615
,1991, 'Caveat emptor or blissful ignorance? Patients and the consumerist ethos', Social Science and Medicine, 33, pp. 559 - 568, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0277-9536(91)90213-V
,1991, 'Consumerism in the health care setting: an exploratory study of factors underlying the selection and evaluation of primary medical services', Australian Journal of Public Health, 15, pp. 194 - 201, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-6405.1991.tb00334.x
,1991, 'Death of a heart surgeon: Reflections on press accounts of the murder of Victor Chang', British Medical Journal, 303, pp. 1583 - 1586, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.303.6817.1583
,1977, 'Senior school students' experiences and opinions of school–based HIV–AIDS education', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 21, pp. 531 - 538, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-842x.1977.tb01106.x
,''I'm Always on the Lookout for What Could Be Going Wrong': Mothers' Concepts and Experiences of Health and Illness in Their Young Children', SSRN Electronic Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2062200
,'Configuring Maternal, Preborn and Infant Embodiment', SSRN Electronic Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2273416
,'Contextualising COVID-19: Sociocultural Perspectives on Contagion', SSRN Electronic Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3661226
,'Digital Bodies', SSRN Electronic Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2606467
,'Digital Risk Society', SSRN Electronic Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2511717
,'Digital Sociology: An Introduction', SSRN Electronic Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2273418
,'Fabricated Data Bodies: Reflections on 3D Printed Digital Body Objects in Medical and Health Domains', SSRN Electronic Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2524270
,'Fat Politics: Collected Writings', SSRN Electronic Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2273419
,'Self-Tracking Modes: Reflexive Self-Monitoring and Data Practices', SSRN Electronic Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2483549
,Conference Papers
2023, 'Health Information Ecologies: An Arts-based and Multisensory Approach', in ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp. 706 - 711, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3638380.3638436
,2017, 'Future of food in the digital realm', in Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, pp. 1342 - 1345, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3049283
,2017, 'Quantified data & social relationships', in Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, pp. 644 - 651, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3027065
,2014, 'Self-tracking cultures: Towards a sociology of personal informatics', in Proceedings of the 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2014, pp. 77 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2686612.2686623
,Conference Abstracts
2020, 'WHY TRUST DIGITAL HEALTH? KEY INFORMANT PERSPECTIVES ON THE PROMISE AND RISKS OF DIGITAL HEALTH FOR PRIORITY POPULATIONS IN THE AUSTRALIAN HIV AND STI RESPONSE', in SEXUAL HEALTH, CSIRO PUBLISHING, Vol. 17, pp. XXIV - XXIV, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000598625300033&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,Reports
2023, Creative Approaches to Health Information Ecologies: Summary Report, UNSW Sydney and ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society., Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28612, http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/unsworks_84117
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