Philippa Martyr
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 696987 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Philippa Martyr |
| NOMBRES | Philippa |
| APELLIDO | Martyr |
| FIRMA | MARTYR P |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1545-9968 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Lee-Ann Monk and David Henderson with Christine Bigby, Richard Broome, and Katie Holmes, Failed Ambitions
Australian Catholics’ Lived Experiences of Covid-19 Church Closures
In 2020, Australian Catholic churches closed due to COVID-19 restrictions, but there has been little qualitative data published on the lived experience of churchgoing Catholics in this period. Data from 175 Australian churchgoing Catholic survey participants who left responses describing their COVID-19 worship experiences as part of a larger project revealed five major themes: ‘Church and State’, ‘Blessings in disguise’, ‘Polarisation’, ‘Future p…
Psychometric properties of the 18-item New Indices of Religious Orientation (Niro) in an Australian churchgoing Catholic population during Covid-19
As part of a larger study of Australian churchgoing Catholics’ responses to COVID-19 church closures, the New Indices of Religious Orientation (NIRO) 18-item short form was tested on a sample of 1162 participants. The total sample showed relatively low mean NIRO Extrinsic and Quest scores, but a higher NIRO Intrinsic mean score than previous studies. Older participants reported significantly higher Quest scores than younger participants, and male…
Factors Affecting Australian Catholics’ Return to Mass After Covid-19 Church Closures
In 2020, many places of worship closed due to COVID-19 restrictions, raising questions about rates of return to worship after COVID-19. This survey-based study of 806 Australian churchgoing Catholics explores relationships between a range of variables and the rate of return to Mass attendance after church closures. Pre-closure Mass attendance rate strongly and significantly predicted real-life worship during church closures and higher rates of re…
Worship choices and wellbeing of Australian churchgoing Catholics during Covid-19 church closures
Catholic worship prioritises in-person ritual contact, but due to COVID-19, most Australian places of worship closed during 2020. An online survey of 1173 Australian churchgoing Catholics using the Spiritual Well Being Scale found no significant difference in Existential and Religious Wellbeing scores between groups who were still experiencing church closures and those who could attend church again. In those still experiencing church closures, st…
A town without pity? Three stories of public exposure, print media, and family histories of madness in Western Australia
It is sometimes easier to understand the chimeric experience of mental disorder by accessing individual episodes and incidents. This paper will review the lives of three strong-willed, charismatic individuals who all had influential and very public brushes with mental disorder in the small outpost city of Perth, Western Australia, between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. This opens up questions of retrospective diagnosis, the chal…
James Dunk, Bedlam at Botany Bay
What happened to John Grant, rejected lover, when he arrived back in London in 1812 after 8 years at the other end of the earth, spent as a prisoner at Botany Bay? Already highly-strung and dramatic, suffering from wild mood swings and outbursts, it is tantalising to wonder what became of him when he arrived back in a world that must have changed for him beyond recognition. James Dunk does not tell us—but he does give us an unparalleled insight i…
‘A matter for conjecture’
Very little has been published on the rise and fall of psychosurgery in Australia. In the mid-twentieth century, Western Australia was the largest but most sparsely-populated of the six Australian States, and its local psychiatry practice was, as one commentator put it, ‘backward’. Nonetheless, electroconvulsive therapy was introduced in 1945, and leucotomy in 1947. This paper will explore the introduction of leucotomy to Western Australia in the…
Aboriginal People in Western Australian Mental Hospitals, 1903–1966
Australian surveys show that Aboriginal people are currently nearly three times more likely to report high levels of psychological distress than non-Aboriginal people, are twice as likely to be hospitalised for mental health problems, and are more likely to die as a result of a mental health-related condition. But has this always been the case? While mental health service use, in particular hospital admission, is not always indicative of the inci…
Having a Clean Up? Deporting Lunatic Migrants from Western Australia, 1924–1939
Between 1924 and 1939, over 100 immigrants were deported from Western Australian mental hospitals. These deported ‘lunatics’ fell within the 3‐year (and later 5‐year) window between arrival and becoming ‘a charge on the state’. This meant that they could be deported by the Australian Commonwealth government under Section 8a of the amended Immigration Restriction Act. So who were these lunatic migrants? Were they already unwell and deliberately en…
John S. Haller, Jr, Swedenborg, Mesmer and the Mind/Body Connection
Journal Article John S. Haller, Jr, Swedenborg, Mesmer and the Mind/Body Connection: The Roots of Complementary Medicine Get access John S. Haller, Jr, Swedenborg, Mesmer and the Mind/Body Connection: The Roots of Complementary Medicine, West Chester, PA: Swedenborg Foundation, 2010. Pp. xx + 321. $29.95. ISBN 978 0 87785 331 2. Philippa Martyr Philippa Martyr University of Western Australia [email protected] Search for other works…
Behaving Wildly
How did the diagnosis and treatment of lunacy in Western Australia intersect with Indigenous control by whites, and attitudes to Indigenous Western Australians in general, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Historical analyses of the pre-1960s period are fragmentary, but there seems to have been about 30 cases of Indigenous persons being charged or diagnosed with lunacy in the period from 1870 to 1914, the overwhelming majority…
The Cleanest Man on Earth’
The National Library of Australia (NLA) Australian Newspapers project went public in July 2008, but many historians and researchers are as yet unaware of its existence, or of its great potential for their research. This article will demonstrate the revolutionary potential of this project for the history of medicine in Australia. Using the case ofa largely-forgotten Western Australian chemist, dentist, and optician, Harcourt Whipple Ellis, a searc…
The Cleanest Man on Earth’
The National Library of Australia (NLA) Australian Newspapers project went public in July 2008, but many historians and researchers are as yet unaware of its existence, or of its great potential for their research. This article will demonstrate the revolutionary potential of this project for the history of medicine in Australia. Using the case of a largely-forgotten Western Australian chemist, dentist, and optician, Harcourt Whipple Ellis, a sear…
Quack Cocaine
Paradise of Quacks
Women's history on the web
A response to Margaret Denton
A small price to pay for peace’
Between 1933 and 1939, Sister Elizabeth Kenny attracted media and medical attention by claiming to have developed an effective form of after‐care for poliomyelitis. The furore that erupted involved ancillary health care workers who felt threatened by Kenny's apparent government support. A key issue exposed by the controversy was a profound social fear of physical deformity, shared by Kenny and the newly successful field of orthopaedics, both of w…
Books
War and Peace in Western Australia: The Social and Political Impact of the Great War 1914–1926. By Bobbie Oliver. University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 1995. Pp. 314. $24.95 paper. Unfit for Heroes: Reconstruction and Soldier Settlement in the Empire between the Wars. By Kent Fedorowich. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1995. Pp. xii + 243. £40.00 cloth. Disturbing the Wan Melbourne Catholics and Vietnam. By Val Noone. Spectrum, M…
From witchdoctor to which doctor
At the cutting edge
Paradise of Quacks
The Cleanest Man on Earth’
The National Library of Australia (NLA) Australian Newspapers project went public in July 2008, but many historians and researchers are as yet unaware of its existence, or of its great potential for their research. This article will demonstrate the revolutionary potential of this project for the history of medicine in Australia. Using the case ofa largely-forgotten Western Australian chemist, dentist, and optician, Harcourt Whipple Ellis, a searc…
The Cleanest Man on Earth’
The National Library of Australia (NLA) Australian Newspapers project went public in July 2008, but many historians and researchers are as yet unaware of its existence, or of its great potential for their research. This article will demonstrate the revolutionary potential of this project for the history of medicine in Australia. Using the case of a largely-forgotten Western Australian chemist, dentist, and optician, Harcourt Whipple Ellis, a sear…
Women's history on the web
A small price to pay for peace’
Between 1933 and 1939, Sister Elizabeth Kenny attracted media and medical attention by claiming to have developed an effective form of after‐care for poliomyelitis. The furore that erupted involved ancillary health care workers who felt threatened by Kenny's apparent government support. A key issue exposed by the controversy was a profound social fear of physical deformity, shared by Kenny and the newly successful field of orthopaedics, both of w…
Books
War and Peace in Western Australia: The Social and Political Impact of the Great War 1914–1926. By Bobbie Oliver. University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 1995. Pp. 314. $24.95 paper. Unfit for Heroes: Reconstruction and Soldier Settlement in the Empire between the Wars. By Kent Fedorowich. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1995. Pp. xii + 243. £40.00 cloth. Disturbing the Wan Melbourne Catholics and Vietnam. By Val Noone. Spectrum, M…
A response to Margaret Denton
Women's history on the web
Paradise of Quacks
Quack Cocaine
Behaving Wildly
How did the diagnosis and treatment of lunacy in Western Australia intersect with Indigenous control by whites, and attitudes to Indigenous Western Australians in general, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Historical analyses of the pre-1960s period are fragmentary, but there seems to have been about 30 cases of Indigenous persons being charged or diagnosed with lunacy in the period from 1870 to 1914, the overwhelming majority…
The Cleanest Man on Earth’
The National Library of Australia (NLA) Australian Newspapers project went public in July 2008, but many historians and researchers are as yet unaware of its existence, or of its great potential for their research. This article will demonstrate the revolutionary potential of this project for the history of medicine in Australia. Using the case ofa largely-forgotten Western Australian chemist, dentist, and optician, Harcourt Whipple Ellis, a searc…
The Cleanest Man on Earth’
The National Library of Australia (NLA) Australian Newspapers project went public in July 2008, but many historians and researchers are as yet unaware of its existence, or of its great potential for their research. This article will demonstrate the revolutionary potential of this project for the history of medicine in Australia. Using the case of a largely-forgotten Western Australian chemist, dentist, and optician, Harcourt Whipple Ellis, a sear…
Having a Clean Up? Deporting Lunatic Migrants from Western Australia, 1924–1939
Between 1924 and 1939, over 100 immigrants were deported from Western Australian mental hospitals. These deported ‘lunatics’ fell within the 3‐year (and later 5‐year) window between arrival and becoming ‘a charge on the state’. This meant that they could be deported by the Australian Commonwealth government under Section 8a of the amended Immigration Restriction Act. So who were these lunatic migrants? Were they already unwell and deliberately en…
John S. Haller, Jr, Swedenborg, Mesmer and the Mind/Body Connection
Journal Article John S. Haller, Jr, Swedenborg, Mesmer and the Mind/Body Connection: The Roots of Complementary Medicine Get access John S. Haller, Jr, Swedenborg, Mesmer and the Mind/Body Connection: The Roots of Complementary Medicine, West Chester, PA: Swedenborg Foundation, 2010. Pp. xx + 321. $29.95. ISBN 978 0 87785 331 2. Philippa Martyr Philippa Martyr University of Western Australia [email protected] Search for other works…
Aboriginal People in Western Australian Mental Hospitals, 1903–1966
Australian surveys show that Aboriginal people are currently nearly three times more likely to report high levels of psychological distress than non-Aboriginal people, are twice as likely to be hospitalised for mental health problems, and are more likely to die as a result of a mental health-related condition. But has this always been the case? While mental health service use, in particular hospital admission, is not always indicative of the inci…
‘A matter for conjecture’
Very little has been published on the rise and fall of psychosurgery in Australia. In the mid-twentieth century, Western Australia was the largest but most sparsely-populated of the six Australian States, and its local psychiatry practice was, as one commentator put it, ‘backward’. Nonetheless, electroconvulsive therapy was introduced in 1945, and leucotomy in 1947. This paper will explore the introduction of leucotomy to Western Australia in the…
James Dunk, Bedlam at Botany Bay
What happened to John Grant, rejected lover, when he arrived back in London in 1812 after 8 years at the other end of the earth, spent as a prisoner at Botany Bay? Already highly-strung and dramatic, suffering from wild mood swings and outbursts, it is tantalising to wonder what became of him when he arrived back in a world that must have changed for him beyond recognition. James Dunk does not tell us—but he does give us an unparalleled insight i…
Factors Affecting Australian Catholics’ Return to Mass After Covid-19 Church Closures
In 2020, many places of worship closed due to COVID-19 restrictions, raising questions about rates of return to worship after COVID-19. This survey-based study of 806 Australian churchgoing Catholics explores relationships between a range of variables and the rate of return to Mass attendance after church closures. Pre-closure Mass attendance rate strongly and significantly predicted real-life worship during church closures and higher rates of re…
Worship choices and wellbeing of Australian churchgoing Catholics during Covid-19 church closures
Catholic worship prioritises in-person ritual contact, but due to COVID-19, most Australian places of worship closed during 2020. An online survey of 1173 Australian churchgoing Catholics using the Spiritual Well Being Scale found no significant difference in Existential and Religious Wellbeing scores between groups who were still experiencing church closures and those who could attend church again. In those still experiencing church closures, st…
A town without pity? Three stories of public exposure, print media, and family histories of madness in Western Australia
It is sometimes easier to understand the chimeric experience of mental disorder by accessing individual episodes and incidents. This paper will review the lives of three strong-willed, charismatic individuals who all had influential and very public brushes with mental disorder in the small outpost city of Perth, Western Australia, between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. This opens up questions of retrospective diagnosis, the chal…
Australian Catholics’ Lived Experiences of Covid-19 Church Closures
In 2020, Australian Catholic churches closed due to COVID-19 restrictions, but there has been little qualitative data published on the lived experience of churchgoing Catholics in this period. Data from 175 Australian churchgoing Catholic survey participants who left responses describing their COVID-19 worship experiences as part of a larger project revealed five major themes: ‘Church and State’, ‘Blessings in disguise’, ‘Polarisation’, ‘Future p…
Psychometric properties of the 18-item New Indices of Religious Orientation (Niro) in an Australian churchgoing Catholic population during Covid-19
As part of a larger study of Australian churchgoing Catholics’ responses to COVID-19 church closures, the New Indices of Religious Orientation (NIRO) 18-item short form was tested on a sample of 1162 participants. The total sample showed relatively low mean NIRO Extrinsic and Quest scores, but a higher NIRO Intrinsic mean score than previous studies. Older participants reported significantly higher Quest scores than younger participants, and male…
From witchdoctor to which doctor
At the cutting edge
Lee-Ann Monk and David Henderson with Christine Bigby, Richard Broome, and Katie Holmes, Failed Ambitions
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