Dr Claire Hooker Senior Lecturer and Co-ordinator, Medical Humanities Unit
Dr Hooker convenes Key Concepts in Medical Humanities MMHU6903; Medicine and War MMHU6901; Dignity MMHU6908, Risk and Health: Communication, Policy MMHU6909; Independent Study MMHU6902; Bodies on Display: Medicine, Museums, Art MMHU6906. Email:
Professor Anderson holds an appointment as Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of History and the Center for Values, Ethics, and the Law in Medicine at the University of Sydney. Additionally, he has an affiliation with the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science at Sydney and is a Professorial Fellow of the Centre for Health and Society at the University of Melbourne. Email:
Professor Carmody is a retired academic physiologist (UNSW), and lively music critic and author, who co-convenes and teaches the unit of study Medicine and Music - MMHU6905. Email:
Professor Fieldhas contributed to the development of the Music-Medicine degree in the Faculty of Medicine, and co-convenes and teaches in the unit of study Medicine & Music MMHU6905 Email: michaelf@med.usyd.edu.au
Professor Gillis is Senior Staff Specialist in Intensive Care and a palliative care physician at the Children’s Hospital, Westmead. His interests include philosophical, historical and sociological aspects of Medicine; a particular interest is in the status of the medical history and his PhD thesis was titled Taking a Medical History in Child Illness : Representations of Parents in Medical Texts since 1850. Email:
Dr Jordens has an honours degree in philosophy, a masters degree in public health, and a PhD which forms part of the ongoing research program at the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law. He is currently co-editor of the new Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. Chris has broad-ranging interests in social and ethical issues relating to health and medicine; he specialises in qualitative and linguistic methods of inquiry. He convenes the unit Biomedicine and Society BETH5103. Email: cjordens@med.usyd.edu.au
Dr Catherine Mills Sydney Bioethics Program, Faculties of Science and Medicine
Dr Mills is the co-ordinator of Bioethics, and Sesqui Lecturer in Bioethics based at the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine. She convenes Ethics and Biotechnology: Genes and Stem Cells BETH 5201; and Introduction to Ethical Reasoning BETH 5101. Email:
Dr Hans Pols Unit for the History and Philosophy of Science, Faculty of Science
Dr Pols' interests are in history of medicine and in history of psychiatry, psychology and the social sciences. He convenes History of Science and Medicine HPSC4102. Email:
Dr West coordinates a unit of study Professional Ethics PHIL7829 which is currently face-to-face, but will be available online from 2008. Her main areas of teaching and research interest are in metaphysics (especially issues of identity, persistence and personal identity), moral philosophy (meta-ethics, normative ethics and applied ethics), political philosophy and feminist philosophy. Email:
