Claire Hooker
Biographic Data
| ID | 189981 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Hooker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Hooker |
| SIGNATURE | HOOKER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2347-6602 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 31 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Face to face
There is now an extensive and robust evidence base for arts and health, but few accounts of how or why socially engaged practices matter in ethical, experiential and aesthetic terms. This paper develops a philosophically grounded account of arts and health engagement with people whose distress is uniquely configured by the visual: those who live with facial nerve paralysis. These patients paradoxically experience hypervisibility due to their faci…
Evolution or erosion? Promissory discourses in ‘accelerated’ regulatory approval of health technologies
In recent years, regulatory processes governing the approval of new health technologies have undergone changes aimed at expediting access. Some of these changes involve the adaptation of established standards of evidence for safety and efficacy, which we refer to as evidence-adapted regulatory pathways (EARPs). While EARPs have provided more timely access to potentially beneficial interventions, critics argue that reducing evidentiary thresholds …
Doing pandemic science in public
Journalists inform the public about risks and government responses during emergencies. • Policy actors and journalists described media controversy about pandemic science. • All agreed that airing expert disagreement promotes accountability and transparency. • But it can erode trust in expertise during public health emergencies
Reconciling market and moral logics on a minimum wage
Essential workers generate and maintain basic services that populations must receive, without interruption, to sustain a healthy, functional society. When SARS-COV-2 spread around the world, mundane low-paid work in essential non-healthcare industries such as supermarkets, became high risk, makeshift and unpredictable. Drawing on recent scholarship in the sociology of work, we conducted 32 interviews to capture how supermarket workers in Australi…
Joe Pawsey and the Founding of Australian Radio Astronomy
Legacy
A scientist’s legacy is modest: a set of publications, almost certainly doomed to become quickly outdated, or forgotten and lost, assumed to be largely irrelevant, with their number—as Pawsey’s career shows—but a poor indicator of actual contribution to science. And this modest legacy is deeply valuable. As the editors of the Proc IRE Australia wrote
New Opportunities in Australian Science, 1929
Joe Pawsey’s was the first generation in which an Australian born child could think of growing up to be a scientist, as he was poised to do at the end of his undergraduate years. There was a new sense in Australia that science would be important for a nation growing in independence and confidence, and the modern world was being rapidly and profoundly reshaped by technology. In this chapter we set out the social and intellectual background to Paws…
Becoming a Physicist, 1926–1929
In March 1926, Pawsey entered the University of Melbourne, enrolled in a Bachelor of Science.
Disagreement among experts about public health decision making
It is common for aspects of the COVID-19 response—and other public health initiatives before it—to be described as polarised. Public health decisions emerge from an interplay of facts, norms and preferred courses of action. What counts as ‘evidence’ is diverse and contestable, and disagreements over how it should be interpreted are often the product of differing choices between competing values. We propose a definition of polarisation for the con…
Testimonial injustice
Testimonial injustice occurs when bias against the credibility of certain social identities results in discounting of their contributions to deliberations. In this analysis, we describe testimonial injustice against women and how it figures in macroallocation procedure. We show how it harms women as deliberators, undermines the objective of inclusivity in macroallocation and affects the justice of resource distributions. We suggest that remedial …
To follow a rule? On frontline clinicians' understandings and embodiments of hospital-acquired infection prevention and control rules
This article reports on a study of clinicians' responses to footage of their enactments of infection prevention and control. The study's approach was to elicit clinicians' reflections on and clarifications about the connections among infection control activities and infection control rules, taking into account their awareness, interpretation and in situ application of those rules. The findings of the study are that clinicians responded to footage…
Trajectories of hospital infection control
Should we smoke it for you as well? An ethnographic analysis of a drug cryptomarket environment
What artists value when providing workshops for clinical students in a regional training setting
This study investigates artists’ perspectives in participating as non-traditional (not medically trained) teachers in a clinical training programme. We conducted semi-structured one-to-one interviews with artists who provided art-based workshops to undergraduate clinical students within the ENRICH programme, a unique clinical training programme in regional Australia. We identified five interconnected conceptual themes. Artists’ constructed value …
Patient Involvement Can Affect Clinicians' Perspectives and Practices of Infection Prevention and Control
This study, set in a mixed, adult surgical ward of a metropolitan teaching hospital in Sydney, Australia, used a novel application of video-reflexive ethnography (VRE) to engage patients and clinicians in an exploration of the practical and relational complexities of patient involvement in infection prevention and control (IPC). This study included individual reflexive sessions with eight patients and six group reflexive sessions with 35 nurses. …
Empathy and affect
While there has been much interest in the apparent benefits of empathy in improving outcomes of medical care, there is continuing concern over the philosophical nature of empathy. We suggest that part of the difficulty in coming to terms with empathy is due to the modernist dichotomies that have structured Western medical discourse, such that doctor and patient, knower and known, cognitive and emotional, subject and object are situated in opposit…
Grace Under Pressure
A positive and respectful learning environment is fundamental to the development of professional identities in healthcare. Yet medical students report poor behaviour from healthcare professionals that contradict professionalism teaching. An interdisciplinary group designed and implemented a drama-based workshop series, based on applied theatre techniques, to help students develop positive professional qualities and interpersonal skills to deal wi…
Filthy Fingernails and Friendly Germs
Medical humanities as expressive of Western culture
In this paper we articulate a growing awareness within the field of the ways in which medical humanities could be deemed expressive of Western cultural values. The authors suggest that medical humanities is culturally limited by a pedagogical and scholarly emphasis on Western cultural artefacts, as well as a tendency to enact an uncritical reliance upon foundational concepts (such as ‘patient’ and ‘experience’) within Western medicine. Both these…
Evidence, Ethics, and Values
We propose a new approach to guide health promotion practice. Health promotion should draw on 2 related systems of reasoning: an evidential system and an ethical system. Further, there are concepts, values, and procedures inherent in both health promotion evidence and ethics, and these should be made explicit. We illustrate our approach with the exemplar of intervention in weight, and use a specific mass-media campaign to show the real-world dang…
Balance, Balancing, and Health
In this article we explore the concept of balance in the context of health. We became interested in balance during a grounded theory study of lay conceptualizations of cancer risk in which participants were concerned with having a good life, which relied heavily on balancing processes. This led us to the qualitative literature about balance in the context of health, which was large and in need of synthesis. We identified 170 relevant studies and …
Beliefs and beyond
Background Clinicians and public health professionals are centrally concerned with mediating risk. However, people often resist the risk‐related information that is communicated to them by experts, or have their own models of risk that conflict with expert views. Quantitative studies have clearly demonstrated the importance of health beliefs and various cognitive and emotional processes in shaping risk perception. More recently, a growing body of…
Media coverage of health issues and how to work more effectively with journalists
An awareness of how to work with the media is essential for health communicators. This includes understanding journalists' daily routines, being available, providing resources, and building relationships with specialist health reporters
Health scares
Currently, many health scholars are concerned about health scares. But what do they mean by the term 'health scare' - are health scares an identifiable phenomenon and how do we currently understand their causation and consequences? By collecting and analysing published articles about events considered to be health scares, this article maps the current views of scholars on their characteristics and causes. Results show that health scares are gener…
Writing the risk of cancer
In this paper we examine how cancer risk is written in cancer policy documents from the English speaking OECD nations. We offer an audit of the multiple ways in which cancer risk is conceptualised and presented in health policy and professional contexts with the long term aim of comparing this with lay conceptualisations. Our study sampled cancer policy documents produced by six nations, the World Health Organization and the International Union f…
Patient Involvement Can Affect Clinicians' Perspectives and Practices of Infection Prevention and Control
This study, set in a mixed, adult surgical ward of a metropolitan teaching hospital in Sydney, Australia, used a novel application of video-reflexive ethnography (VRE) to engage patients and clinicians in an exploration of the practical and relational complexities of patient involvement in infection prevention and control (IPC). This study included individual reflexive sessions with eight patients and six group reflexive sessions with 35 nurses. …
Evidence, Ethics, and Values
We propose a new approach to guide health promotion practice. Health promotion should draw on 2 related systems of reasoning: an evidential system and an ethical system. Further, there are concepts, values, and procedures inherent in both health promotion evidence and ethics, and these should be made explicit. We illustrate our approach with the exemplar of intervention in weight, and use a specific mass-media campaign to show the real-world dang…
Balance, Balancing, and Health
In this article we explore the concept of balance in the context of health. We became interested in balance during a grounded theory study of lay conceptualizations of cancer risk in which participants were concerned with having a good life, which relied heavily on balancing processes. This led us to the qualitative literature about balance in the context of health, which was large and in need of synthesis. We identified 170 relevant studies and …
Writing social determinants into and out of cancer control
Medical humanities as expressive of Western culture
In this paper we articulate a growing awareness within the field of the ways in which medical humanities could be deemed expressive of Western cultural values. The authors suggest that medical humanities is culturally limited by a pedagogical and scholarly emphasis on Western cultural artefacts, as well as a tendency to enact an uncritical reliance upon foundational concepts (such as ‘patient’ and ‘experience’) within Western medicine. Both these…
Health scares
Currently, many health scholars are concerned about health scares. But what do they mean by the term 'health scare' - are health scares an identifiable phenomenon and how do we currently understand their causation and consequences? By collecting and analysing published articles about events considered to be health scares, this article maps the current views of scholars on their characteristics and causes. Results show that health scares are gener…
Sars and Security
In "SARS and Security: Health in the "New Normal,"" Claire Hooker and Harris Ali illustrate how the boundaries between public health and national security are being blurred in the present age. The authors show how the "new normal" is an ideology that constructs the world as inherently insecure. Their paper demonstrates how this ideology converges along a number of tangents with neoliberalism that has repercussions for how matters of public health…
To follow a rule? On frontline clinicians' understandings and embodiments of hospital-acquired infection prevention and control rules
This article reports on a study of clinicians' responses to footage of their enactments of infection prevention and control. The study's approach was to elicit clinicians' reflections on and clarifications about the connections among infection control activities and infection control rules, taking into account their awareness, interpretation and in situ application of those rules. The findings of the study are that clinicians responded to footage…
Trajectories of hospital infection control
Empathy and affect
While there has been much interest in the apparent benefits of empathy in improving outcomes of medical care, there is continuing concern over the philosophical nature of empathy. We suggest that part of the difficulty in coming to terms with empathy is due to the modernist dichotomies that have structured Western medical discourse, such that doctor and patient, knower and known, cognitive and emotional, subject and object are situated in opposit…
Contagion
In the age of HIV, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the Ebola Virus and BSE, metaphors and experience of contagion are a central concern of government, biomedicine and popular culture.Contagion explores cultural responses of infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also investigates the use of 'contagion' as a concept in postmodern reconceptualisations of embodied subjectivity.The essays ar…
Moral Oversights
Deliberately personal
In this paper the authors examine some of the main features of public discourse concerning tobacco control, analyzing parliamentary debate in New South Wales between 1980 and 2003. They ask how deeply tobacco industry discursive frames (e.g. the ‘right to smoke’) penetrated and organized parliamentary discourse and also identify what kinds of ideas were mobilized to justify tobacco control despite government reluctance to intervene. They find tha…
The Bovine Scourge
Book Review| October 01 2008 The Bovine Scourge: Meat, Tuberculosis, and Public Health, 1850–1914 The Bovine Scourge: Meat, Tuberculosis, and Public Health, 1850-1914. Kier Waddington. Claire Hooker Claire Hooker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 534–535. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.4.534 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Claire Hooker; The…
Writing the risk of cancer
In this paper we examine how cancer risk is written in cancer policy documents from the English speaking OECD nations. We offer an audit of the multiple ways in which cancer risk is conceptualised and presented in health policy and professional contexts with the long term aim of comparing this with lay conceptualisations. Our study sampled cancer policy documents produced by six nations, the World Health Organization and the International Union f…
Sars and Security
In "SARS and Security: Health in the "New Normal,"" Claire Hooker and Harris Ali illustrate how the boundaries between public health and national security are being blurred in the present age. The authors show how the "new normal" is an ideology that constructs the world as inherently insecure. Their paper demonstrates how this ideology converges along a number of tangents with neoliberalism that has repercussions for how matters of public health…
Writing social determinants into and out of cancer control
Beliefs and beyond
Background Clinicians and public health professionals are centrally concerned with mediating risk. However, people often resist the risk‐related information that is communicated to them by experts, or have their own models of risk that conflict with expert views. Quantitative studies have clearly demonstrated the importance of health beliefs and various cognitive and emotional processes in shaping risk perception. More recently, a growing body of…
Media coverage of health issues and how to work more effectively with journalists
An awareness of how to work with the media is essential for health communicators. This includes understanding journalists' daily routines, being available, providing resources, and building relationships with specialist health reporters
Health scares
Currently, many health scholars are concerned about health scares. But what do they mean by the term 'health scare' - are health scares an identifiable phenomenon and how do we currently understand their causation and consequences? By collecting and analysing published articles about events considered to be health scares, this article maps the current views of scholars on their characteristics and causes. Results show that health scares are gener…
Medical humanities as expressive of Western culture
In this paper we articulate a growing awareness within the field of the ways in which medical humanities could be deemed expressive of Western cultural values. The authors suggest that medical humanities is culturally limited by a pedagogical and scholarly emphasis on Western cultural artefacts, as well as a tendency to enact an uncritical reliance upon foundational concepts (such as ‘patient’ and ‘experience’) within Western medicine. Both these…
Evidence, Ethics, and Values
We propose a new approach to guide health promotion practice. Health promotion should draw on 2 related systems of reasoning: an evidential system and an ethical system. Further, there are concepts, values, and procedures inherent in both health promotion evidence and ethics, and these should be made explicit. We illustrate our approach with the exemplar of intervention in weight, and use a specific mass-media campaign to show the real-world dang…
Balance, Balancing, and Health
In this article we explore the concept of balance in the context of health. We became interested in balance during a grounded theory study of lay conceptualizations of cancer risk in which participants were concerned with having a good life, which relied heavily on balancing processes. This led us to the qualitative literature about balance in the context of health, which was large and in need of synthesis. We identified 170 relevant studies and …
Filthy Fingernails and Friendly Germs
Empathy and affect
While there has been much interest in the apparent benefits of empathy in improving outcomes of medical care, there is continuing concern over the philosophical nature of empathy. We suggest that part of the difficulty in coming to terms with empathy is due to the modernist dichotomies that have structured Western medical discourse, such that doctor and patient, knower and known, cognitive and emotional, subject and object are situated in opposit…
Grace Under Pressure
A positive and respectful learning environment is fundamental to the development of professional identities in healthcare. Yet medical students report poor behaviour from healthcare professionals that contradict professionalism teaching. An interdisciplinary group designed and implemented a drama-based workshop series, based on applied theatre techniques, to help students develop positive professional qualities and interpersonal skills to deal wi…
Patient Involvement Can Affect Clinicians' Perspectives and Practices of Infection Prevention and Control
This study, set in a mixed, adult surgical ward of a metropolitan teaching hospital in Sydney, Australia, used a novel application of video-reflexive ethnography (VRE) to engage patients and clinicians in an exploration of the practical and relational complexities of patient involvement in infection prevention and control (IPC). This study included individual reflexive sessions with eight patients and six group reflexive sessions with 35 nurses. …
What artists value when providing workshops for clinical students in a regional training setting
This study investigates artists’ perspectives in participating as non-traditional (not medically trained) teachers in a clinical training programme. We conducted semi-structured one-to-one interviews with artists who provided art-based workshops to undergraduate clinical students within the ENRICH programme, a unique clinical training programme in regional Australia. We identified five interconnected conceptual themes. Artists’ constructed value …
Should we smoke it for you as well? An ethnographic analysis of a drug cryptomarket environment
To follow a rule? On frontline clinicians' understandings and embodiments of hospital-acquired infection prevention and control rules
This article reports on a study of clinicians' responses to footage of their enactments of infection prevention and control. The study's approach was to elicit clinicians' reflections on and clarifications about the connections among infection control activities and infection control rules, taking into account their awareness, interpretation and in situ application of those rules. The findings of the study are that clinicians responded to footage…
Trajectories of hospital infection control
Testimonial injustice
Testimonial injustice occurs when bias against the credibility of certain social identities results in discounting of their contributions to deliberations. In this analysis, we describe testimonial injustice against women and how it figures in macroallocation procedure. We show how it harms women as deliberators, undermines the objective of inclusivity in macroallocation and affects the justice of resource distributions. We suggest that remedial …
Joe Pawsey and the Founding of Australian Radio Astronomy
Legacy
A scientist’s legacy is modest: a set of publications, almost certainly doomed to become quickly outdated, or forgotten and lost, assumed to be largely irrelevant, with their number—as Pawsey’s career shows—but a poor indicator of actual contribution to science. And this modest legacy is deeply valuable. As the editors of the Proc IRE Australia wrote
New Opportunities in Australian Science, 1929
Joe Pawsey’s was the first generation in which an Australian born child could think of growing up to be a scientist, as he was poised to do at the end of his undergraduate years. There was a new sense in Australia that science would be important for a nation growing in independence and confidence, and the modern world was being rapidly and profoundly reshaped by technology. In this chapter we set out the social and intellectual background to Paws…
Medicine (19 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Political science (13 works) · Public health (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Nursing (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (7 works) · Law (7 works)