Cecily Hunter
Biographic Data
| ID | 6554462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cecily Hunter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cecily |
| FAMILY NAME | Hunter |
| SIGNATURE | HUNTER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Concept of Successful Ageing
In Australia, as in other Western democracies, the category ‘old age’ often refers to men and women who are not only advanced in age, but who are also poor. When two Victorian psychiatrists introduced the concept ‘successful ageing’ into discussions on mental health in old age in the 1960s, they too drew on the experience of men and women whose lives were marked as much by hardship as advancing age. However, their use of this concept has the pote…
Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth-Century Australia
Reviewed by Cecily Hunter University of Melbourne Pat Jalland. Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth-Century Australia: War, Medicine and the Funeral Business. Reprint. Sydney, Australia: University of New South Wales Press, 2006. viii + 409 pp. Ill. $39.95 (paperbound, 0-86840-905-7). The "death awareness" movement that appeared in the United States in the 1970s had its counterpart in Australia, where it also was stimulated by the publication of D…
Medicine of Senescence or Managing a Hospital System
This paper investigates the conditions in which geriatric medicine emerged in the state of Victoria between the late 1950s and the late 1970s. It shows how, in transforming a charity model of care into a medical model of service, nascent geriatricians were caught up in the shifting balance of responsibilities between state and Commonwealth governments in funding health services and care for the aged, and in the efforts of a small segment of the A…
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Medicine of Senescence or Managing a Hospital System
This paper investigates the conditions in which geriatric medicine emerged in the state of Victoria between the late 1950s and the late 1970s. It shows how, in transforming a charity model of care into a medical model of service, nascent geriatricians were caught up in the shifting balance of responsibilities between state and Commonwealth governments in funding health services and care for the aged, and in the efforts of a small segment of the A…
Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth-Century Australia
Reviewed by Cecily Hunter University of Melbourne Pat Jalland. Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth-Century Australia: War, Medicine and the Funeral Business. Reprint. Sydney, Australia: University of New South Wales Press, 2006. viii + 409 pp. Ill. $39.95 (paperbound, 0-86840-905-7). The "death awareness" movement that appeared in the United States in the 1970s had its counterpart in Australia, where it also was stimulated by the publication of D…
The Concept of Successful Ageing
In Australia, as in other Western democracies, the category ‘old age’ often refers to men and women who are not only advanced in age, but who are also poor. When two Victorian psychiatrists introduced the concept ‘successful ageing’ into discussions on mental health in old age in the 1960s, they too drew on the experience of men and women whose lives were marked as much by hardship as advancing age. However, their use of this concept has the pote…
Medicine (3 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Ageing (1 work) · Aging and Gerontology Research (1 work) · Bureaucracy (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Commonwealth (1 work) · Context (archaeology (1 work) · Employment and Welfare Studies (1 work)