Publications and Conference Papers, 2007-2011

Books

  • D. MacKinnon and C. Coleborne (eds), Exhibiting Madness in Museums: Remembering Psychiatry through Collections and Display, New York: Routledge, 2011.
  • J. Waller, A Time to Dance, a Time to Die: the Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518, Cambridge: Icon Books, 2008.

Chapters and Articles

  • E. Malcolm, '"Our Fevered Past": Irish Immigrants in a Colonial Lunatic Asylum during the Australian Gold Rushes, 1848-69' in Pauline Prior (ed.), Irish Mental Health Care: Historical Essays, Dublin: Irish Academic Press (in press).
  • E. Malcolm, 'Between Habitual Drunkards and Alcoholics: Inebriate Women and Reformatories in Ireland, 1899-1919' in Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh and Margaret Preston (eds), Gender, Medicine and the State in Ireland, the United States and Australia, 1800-1950, New York: Syracuse University Press (in press).
  • E. Malcolm, 'Mental Health and Migration: the Case of the Irish, 1850s-1990s' in Angela McCarthy and Catharine Coleborne (eds), Mental Health and Migration, London: Routledge (in press).
  • D. MacKinnon "Bodies of evidence": Dissecting Madness in Nineteenth-Century Australia' in Sarah Ferber and Sally Wilde (eds) The Body Divided: Human Beings and Human 'Materials' in the History of Medical Science, Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate (in press).
  • D. MacKinnon, '"Snatches of music, flickering images, and the smell of leather": the Material Culture of Recreational Pastimes in Psychiatric Collections: Scotland and Australia' in C. Coleborne and D. MacKinnon (eds) Exhibiting Madness in Museums: Remembering Psychiatry through Collections and Display, New York: Routledge, 2011, 151-83.
  • D. MacKinnon and C. Coleborne, 'Seeing and Not Seeing Psychiatry' in Catharine Coleborne and Dolly MacKinnon (eds) Exhibiting Madness in Museums: Remembering Psychiatry through Collections and Display, New York: Routledge, 2011, 1-23.
  • E. Malcolm, Review Article: 'Psychiatry in Colonial Australia: Mad Women and their Attendants in Victoria's Asylums, 1848-88', History of Psychiatry, 21, 1 (2010), 96-101.
  • D. MacKinnon, 'The 20th-Century Mental Hospital: a place in history but not in the adaptive reuse of surviving built heritage environments' in David Nichols, Anna Hurlimann, Clare Mouat and Stephen Pascoe (eds), Green Fields, Brown Fields, New Fields: Proceedings of the 10th Australasian Urban History, Planning History Conference, Melbourne: University of Melbourne and Melbourne School of Design, 2010, 359-67.
  • E. Malcolm, 'Australian Asylum Architecture through German Eyes: Kew, Melbourne, 1867', Health and History, Special Issue: Australian Asylums and Their Histories, ed. Mark Finnane, 11, 1 (2009), 46-64.
  • D. MacKinnon, 'Music, Sport, and Recreation as Medicinal: Traces in the Australian Asylum Landscape, 1860-1945', Health and History, Special Issue: Australian Asylums and Their Histories, ed. Mark Finnane, 11, 1 (2009), 128-48.
  • D. MacKinnon, '"Amusements are provided": Asylum Entertainment and Recreation in Australia and New Zealand c.1860-c.1945' in G. Mooney and J. Reinarz (eds), Permeable Walls: Historical Perspectives on Hospital and Asylum Visiting, London: Clio Medica/Rodopi, 2009, 267-88.
  • J. Waller, 'Dancing Plagues and Mass Hysteria', The Psychiatrist, 22, 7 (2009), 644-7.
  • J. Waller, 'Procuring Bodies: a Cautionary Note', Medical Humanities Report, 29, 2 (2008), 5-6.
  • J. Waller, '"In a spin": the Mysterious Dancing Epidemic of 1518', Endeavour, 32, 2 (2008), 117-21.
  • J. Waller, 'Lessons from the History of Medicine', Journal of Investigative Surgery, 21, 2 (2008), 53-6.
  • D. MacKinnon (with K. Reeves and D. Nichols), 'Goldfields Asylums: Anxieties, Evasions and Erasures' in K. Reeves and D. Nichols (eds), Deeper Leads: New Approaches in Victorian Goldfields History, Ballarat: Ballarat Heritage Series, 2007, 39-62.

Conference and Symposium Papers

12-15 July 2011
D. MacKinnon, 'Post Mortem of 'A Perfect Execution': 19th-Century Scottish Prison and Asylum Doctors in the Diaspora', paper presented at the Australian and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine Conference, University of Queensland, Brisbane.

12-15 July 2011
A. Westmore, 'The Convict Experience of Mental Illness in Australia', paper presented at the Australian and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine Conference, University of Queensland, Brisbane.

12-15 July 2011
L. Monk, 'The Use of Mechanical Restraints in Asylums in Victoria, 1848-1908', paper presented at the Australian and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine Conference, University of Queensland, Brisbane.

4 November 2010
E. Malcolm, 'Mental Health in Ireland and the Irish Diaspora, 1850-2000: Many Questions, Many Explanations', Invited Lecture, University of Liverpool

2 November 2010
E. Malcolm, 'Celts, Gold and Madness: Irish, Scottish and Welsh Immigrants in a Lunatic Asylum during the Australian Gold Rushes, 1850-70', Invited Lecture, University of Wales, Cardiff

21 October 2010
E. Malcolm, 'From Famine to Fever: the Irish and the Australian Gold Rushes, 1850-70', Invited Annual Irish Studies Lecture, Queen's University, Belfast

1-4 July 2010
E. Malcolm, 'Mental Health and Migration: the Case of the Irish', 17th Australasian Irish Studies Conference, Queen's University, Belfast

15 April 2010
E. Malcolm, 'Mental Health and Migration: the Case of the Irish', Invited Lecture, University of Otago, Dunedin

7-10 February 2010
D. MacKinnon, 'The 20th-Century Mental Hospital: A place in history but not in the adaptive reuse of surviving built heritage environments', paper presented at 10th Urban History, Planning History Conference, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne.

28 September-2 October 2009
D. MacKinnon and L. Monk, '"The house is well & carefully kept": Private Asylums in Australia, 1840-1930', paper presented at the Australian and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine Conference, University of Western Australia, Perth.

28 September-2 October 2009
A. Westmore, '"Not quite mad enough": Deciding about Claims of Insanity in the Age of Transportation, 1820s to 1840s', paper presented at the Australian and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine Conference, University of Western Australia, Perth.

8 May 2009
E. Malcolm and D. MacKinnon, 'History of Psychiatric Institutions and Community Care in Australia, c.1820s-1990s', paper presented at School of Historical Studies Research Day, University of Melbourne.

7-10 July 2008
E. Malcolm and D. MacKinnon, 'Does the Community Care? A Study of Caring for the Mentally Ill in the Community in Australia, c.1829-c.1990', paper presented at the Australian Historical Association 14th Biennial National Conference, University of Melbourne.

April 2008
J. Waller, 'Procuring Bodies: Reflections on the Universe Within Exhibit', Kalamazoo Medical School, Michigan.

February 2008
J. Waller, 'Procuring Bodies: Reflections on the Universe Within Exhibit', Science Centre, Detroit, Michigan.

23 November 2007
E. Malcolm, 'An Australian Asylum through German Eyes: Kew, Melbourne, 1867', paper presented at Public Symposium on Australian Asylums and their Histories, Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, part of the exhibition 'Remembering Goodna: Stories from Queensland's Mental Hospital, 1865-2007', Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane City Council, in collaboration with Professor Mark Finnane, Griffith University.

23 November 2007
D. MacKinnon, 'Music, Medicine and Recreation in the Asylum', paper presented at Public Symposium on Australian Asylums and their Histories, Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, part of the exhibition 'Remembering Goodna: Stories from Queensland's Mental Hospital, 1865-2007', Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane City Council, in collaboration with Professor Mark Finnane, Griffith University.

19 October 2007
D. MacKinnon, '"Bodies of Evidence": Dissecting Madness in 19th-Century Australia', paper presented at 'Human Beings: Human Materials', a Biomedical History Day Symposium, convened by Dr Sarah Ferber, School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, University of Queensland, Brisbane.

30-31 August 2007
E. Malcolm, 'After 20 Years: Reflections on Writing the History of St. Patrick's Hospital, Dublin', paper presented at the Wellcome Trust History of Psychiatry in Ireland Symposium, Queen's University, Belfast.

30-31 August 2007
E. Malcolm, 'Irish Foundations: the Building of Asylums in Colonial Australia', paper presented at the Wellcome Trust History of Psychiatry in Ireland Symposium, Queen's University, Belfast.

3-6 July 2007
E. Malcolm and D. MacKinnon, 'The Architecture of Madness: Building Asylums in 19th-Century Australia', paper presented at the Australian and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine Conference, Australian National University, Canberra.