Julia E H Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 630840 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia E H Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia E H |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN J E H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8724-693X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On the Social Existence of Mental Health Categories
Mental health categories can circulate in societies regardless of whether they are recognized by medical professionals. This article asks why some labels are adopted en masse to commonly characterize some forms of distress, while other labels remain confined to specialist spheres. Contrasting with many examples of medicalization, 'sex addiction' offers a heuristic case study because it was only after its exclusion from the Diagnostic and Statisti…
The Stories We Tell or Omit
Anthropologists studying mental healthcare tend to do so through observational and analytic attention to how individuals experience specific clinical and cultural contexts. While narrating lived experience may serve to humanise conditions like mental illness, those of us observing from a White, colonist-descended position can overlook the structural and racialised forces that determine entrance into particular treatment spaces. In doing so, we in…
Experimental Engagements with Ethnography, Moral Agency and Care
This Special Section explores questions of method and positionality attached to moral agency in mental healthcare, which give rise to novel methodological and theoretical approaches to everyday life in the clinical and non-clinical spaces where such 'care' occurs. Moral agency is the ability to be perceived as a 'good enough' person, which makes possible intimate relationships with others that are needed to thrive in many social contexts (Myers 2…
Psychiatric genomics, mental health equity, and intersectionality
The causal mechanisms and manifestations of psychiatric illness cannot be neatly narrowed down or quantified for diagnosis and treatment. Large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS) might renew hope for locating genetic predictors and producing precision medicines, however such hopes can also distract from appreciating social factors and structural injustices that demand more socially inclusive and equitable approaches to mental healthcare…
The social value of genomic sequencing for disadvantaged families facing rare disease
AI chatbots cannot replace human interactions in the pursuit of more inclusive mental healthcare
What will the future of mental healthcare look like for those who currently fall through the gaps? There is hope that AI chatbots will meet a rising demand on healthcare systems to provide care to meet the shadow pandemic in mental health. Chatbots are viewed as improving efficiency, affordability, convenience, and patient-driven access with an implicit assumption that this will improve health equity and social inclusion. There are, however, thre…
Relegating Psychosis
Can e-cigarettes improve the well-being of people with mental health disorders
Raising Health Expectations for Schizophrenia Patients
Doing Things Little by Little
This paper explores the experiences of smoking and ‘vaping’ while being pharmaceutically treated for schizophrenia, as well as what the experiences of breathing smoke and vapour in and out can reveal about health ‘care’, toward the self and others. Drawing on ethnographic data collected over 2015–2016 in Australia and the UK, and particularly on patient experiences in the UK where electronic cigarettes had become an endorsed Nicotine Replacement …
Actively Negotiating the Mind–Body Divide
The challenges of caring for a child with Fasd
‘Caring for a child or young person with foetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) is very challenging’ is a statement commonly heard by the parents/carers involved. But why is it so challenging? What are the specific challenges? How does this sentence relate to the family-finding team, to panel considerations, to training for foster carers, to the selection of adopters and to care planning? This article seeks to address some of these issues from …
On the Social Existence of Mental Health Categories
Mental health categories can circulate in societies regardless of whether they are recognized by medical professionals. This article asks why some labels are adopted en masse to commonly characterize some forms of distress, while other labels remain confined to specialist spheres. Contrasting with many examples of medicalization, 'sex addiction' offers a heuristic case study because it was only after its exclusion from the Diagnostic and Statisti…
The Stories We Tell or Omit
Anthropologists studying mental healthcare tend to do so through observational and analytic attention to how individuals experience specific clinical and cultural contexts. While narrating lived experience may serve to humanise conditions like mental illness, those of us observing from a White, colonist-descended position can overlook the structural and racialised forces that determine entrance into particular treatment spaces. In doing so, we in…
Experimental Engagements with Ethnography, Moral Agency and Care
This Special Section explores questions of method and positionality attached to moral agency in mental healthcare, which give rise to novel methodological and theoretical approaches to everyday life in the clinical and non-clinical spaces where such 'care' occurs. Moral agency is the ability to be perceived as a 'good enough' person, which makes possible intimate relationships with others that are needed to thrive in many social contexts (Myers 2…
Raising Health Expectations for Schizophrenia Patients
Doing Things Little by Little
This paper explores the experiences of smoking and ‘vaping’ while being pharmaceutically treated for schizophrenia, as well as what the experiences of breathing smoke and vapour in and out can reveal about health ‘care’, toward the self and others. Drawing on ethnographic data collected over 2015–2016 in Australia and the UK, and particularly on patient experiences in the UK where electronic cigarettes had become an endorsed Nicotine Replacement …
The challenges of caring for a child with Fasd
‘Caring for a child or young person with foetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) is very challenging’ is a statement commonly heard by the parents/carers involved. But why is it so challenging? What are the specific challenges? How does this sentence relate to the family-finding team, to panel considerations, to training for foster carers, to the selection of adopters and to care planning? This article seeks to address some of these issues from …
Actively Negotiating the Mind–Body Divide
Raising Health Expectations for Schizophrenia Patients
Doing Things Little by Little
This paper explores the experiences of smoking and ‘vaping’ while being pharmaceutically treated for schizophrenia, as well as what the experiences of breathing smoke and vapour in and out can reveal about health ‘care’, toward the self and others. Drawing on ethnographic data collected over 2015–2016 in Australia and the UK, and particularly on patient experiences in the UK where electronic cigarettes had become an endorsed Nicotine Replacement …
Can e-cigarettes improve the well-being of people with mental health disorders
Relegating Psychosis
AI chatbots cannot replace human interactions in the pursuit of more inclusive mental healthcare
What will the future of mental healthcare look like for those who currently fall through the gaps? There is hope that AI chatbots will meet a rising demand on healthcare systems to provide care to meet the shadow pandemic in mental health. Chatbots are viewed as improving efficiency, affordability, convenience, and patient-driven access with an implicit assumption that this will improve health equity and social inclusion. There are, however, thre…
Psychiatric genomics, mental health equity, and intersectionality
The causal mechanisms and manifestations of psychiatric illness cannot be neatly narrowed down or quantified for diagnosis and treatment. Large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS) might renew hope for locating genetic predictors and producing precision medicines, however such hopes can also distract from appreciating social factors and structural injustices that demand more socially inclusive and equitable approaches to mental healthcare…
The social value of genomic sequencing for disadvantaged families facing rare disease
The Stories We Tell or Omit
Anthropologists studying mental healthcare tend to do so through observational and analytic attention to how individuals experience specific clinical and cultural contexts. While narrating lived experience may serve to humanise conditions like mental illness, those of us observing from a White, colonist-descended position can overlook the structural and racialised forces that determine entrance into particular treatment spaces. In doing so, we in…
Experimental Engagements with Ethnography, Moral Agency and Care
This Special Section explores questions of method and positionality attached to moral agency in mental healthcare, which give rise to novel methodological and theoretical approaches to everyday life in the clinical and non-clinical spaces where such 'care' occurs. Moral agency is the ability to be perceived as a 'good enough' person, which makes possible intimate relationships with others that are needed to thrive in many social contexts (Myers 2…
On the Social Existence of Mental Health Categories
Mental health categories can circulate in societies regardless of whether they are recognized by medical professionals. This article asks why some labels are adopted en masse to commonly characterize some forms of distress, while other labels remain confined to specialist spheres. Contrasting with many examples of medicalization, 'sex addiction' offers a heuristic case study because it was only after its exclusion from the Diagnostic and Statisti…
Psychology (12 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Mental health (5 works) · Schizophrenia research and treatment (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Health care (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social science (4 works)