Doctor Louella Mccarthy
SENIOR LECTURER, MEDICINE IN SOCIETY,
Dean's Unit - School of Medicine
Personal
Qualifications
- PhD University of New South Wales
- MA University of New South Wales
- BA(Hist) University of New South Wales
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Dean's Unit - School of Medicine
Contact
| Email: | L.Mccarthy@uws.edu.au |
|---|---|
| Extension: | 3641 |
| Mobile: | 0404481993 |
| Location: | 30.3.32 Campbelltown |
| Website: |
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Biography
Louella’s work examines the interactions between medicine and society from a number of different perspectives. Her primary disciplinary interest involves the changing nature of medicine and its practice over time. This work has incorporated the study of both practitioners and patients, as well as ‘spatial’ examinations which locate both the sites of medical practice and the influences of place for people. From a contemporary perspective, the development of public and community involvement in teaching and researching medicine are crucial component of her work. Engaging students in learning with and from the community particularly in relation to the nature and impact of social disadvantage and social justice on health provide a focus for this work.
Louella obtained her PhD from the University of New South Wales in 2002, with a thesis investigating the changing role and perspective of women in Australian medicine. Following completion of her PhD Louella took up a research position with the Faculty of Health Science, University of Sydney investigating the experiences of women with disabilities and breast cancer screening as a means for improving screening rates for this population group.
Louella’s current professional activities include co-editing Gender and History, a monograph series with Palgrave Macmillan, President of the Australian and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine and co-editor of Exhibitions reviews for the journal Health & History.
Throughout her career, Louella has been involved in the field of community engagement with universities and has contributed to the wider appreciation of the valuable role that communities can play in academic work.
This information has been contributed by Doctor Mccarthy.
Teaching
Current Teaching Areas
- 400810 Integrated Clinical Rotations 1
Publications
Chapters in Books
- Mccarthy, L. (2005), 'The History of Nursing and Medicine', Companion to Women's Historical Writing, Palgrave Macmillan 9781403915085.
Journal Articles
- Mccarthy, L., Poulos, A., Baladin, S., Llewellyn, G., Llewellyn, G., Mccarthy, L. and Dark, L. (2011), 'Women with physical disability and the mammogram: An observational study to identify barriers and facilitators', Radiography, 6.
- Mccarthy, L., Poulos, A., Baladin, S., Llewellyn, G., Llewellyn, G., Mccarthy, L. and Dark, L. (2011), 'Women with physical disability and the mammogram: An observational study to identify barriers and facilitators', Radiography, 6.
- Llewellyn, G., Baladin, S., Poulos, A. and Mccarthy, L. (2011), 'Disability and mammography screening: Intangible barriers to participation', Disability and Rehabilitation, 13.
- Mccarthy, L., Jones, A., Yeomans, N., Bambrick, H., Pacey, F., Ramanathan, J. and Wills, T. (2010), 'Engaging for health: medicine in context as a case study in engaged teaching and learning for students in medicine', Australasian Journal of University-Community Engagement, 21.
- Mccarthy, L. (2008), 'Disabling the Medical Model', Metascience, 8.
- Mccarthy, L. (2007), 'Visceral Reactions: Visualising Health in History', Health and History, 4.
- Mccarthy, L. (2006), 'Filtered Images: Visions of 'Pioneering' Women Doctors in Twentieth-Century Australia', Health & History, 20.
- Mccarthy, L. (2005), 'All This Fuss About a Trivial Incident? Women, Hospitals and Medical Work in New South Wales, 1900-1920', Women's History Review, 19.
- Mccarthy, L. (2003), ''Idealists or Pragmatists? Progressives and Separatists amoung Australian Medical Women, 1900-1940', Social History of Medicine, 20.
- Mccarthy, L. (2003), 'Surveying Attitudes and Charting the Future', Australian Cultural History, 12.
Conference Papers
- Mccarthy, L. (2010), 'Engaging for Health: Medicine in Context as a Case Study in Engaged Teaching and Learning for Students in Medicine', AUCEA Conference Launcestom, .
- Mccarthy, L. (2009), 'Between the Ideal and a Living: women in private medical practice, NSW 1890-1939', ANZSHM 11th Biennial Conference, Perth, Western Australia, .
- Mccarthy, L. (2008), 'Medical Woman as Teachers in pre-World War II New South Wales', Work! Work! Work!: Work and the History of Education, Joint ANZHES/HES International Conference, .
- Mccarthy, L. (2008), 'Competing Visions of Medicine: Or why community matters in the medical school', Engaging for a Sustainable Future, AUCEA 2008 Conference, University of the Sunshine Coast, .
- Mccarthy, L. (2007), 'Talking about breast cancer: oral history, woman and public health policy', Medicine in Context: the ANZSHM Biennial Conference, .
- Mccarthy, L. (2007), 'Health, History and Disadvantage: Where are Woman with Disabilities in the Records?', Simply the Best: Reflections of woman through records conference'. The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library 2007 National Conference, .
- Mccarthy, L. (2006), 'Entering the Promised Land? Women Doctors, Progressivism and the School Medical Service in New South Wales (Australia) 1900-39', 'Education, Health & Social Welfare', Annual Conference of the History of Education Society, London, UK.
- Mccarthy, L. (2006), 'Sydney or the Bush? Locating Women/s Medical Practice in New South Wales (Australia), 1885-1939', The Importance of Place in Medical Practice Conference, Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Exeter.
- Mccarthy, L. (2006), 'Woman's Business? Using oral history in health care', International Oral History Association Conference, Sydney.
- Mccarthy, L. (2004), 'Becoming Doctors: Medical Students, Gender and the Colonial University, 1880-1920', 'Insiders and Outsiders' : History of Education Conference, Dublin.
- Mccarthy, L. (2004), 'Revisioning the Pioneers: Women's Medical Education in Pre-WWI Sydney', AHA Biennial Conference, University of Newcas.
- Mccarthy, L. (2004), 'Disgusting Wickedness: Debates about Gendered Bodies and Woman Doctors in Sydney Hospitals, c.1900', Modern History Series, Macquarie University.
- Mccarthy, L. (2002), 'Australians and the Past: History and the Public', Historyworks Conference: Practice, Process and Presentation of Public History, Professional Historians Association of New Zealand, Wellington NZ.
- Mccarthy, L. (2002), 'All this Fuss about a Trivial Incident: Women, Work and Hospitals in New South Wales, 1900-1920', Women and Work Culture 1850-1950' Conference, Leeds Metroplitan University, UK.
- Mccarthy, L. (2002), 'The Politics of Women's Hospitals: Women Doctors in New South Wales', Australian Historical Association (AHA) Biennial Conference, Brisbae, QLD.
Research
- History of Medicine
- Gender and Medicine
- Engaged Teaching & Learning
- Social Medicine
This information has been contributed by Doctor Mccarthy.
