Grace Under Pressure: Using theatre skills workshops to enhance professional clinical performance
Preparing Australia for the next pandemic: Managing controversy; promoting trust.

Associations

Arts Health Network NSW/ACT

Keywords

Health programs, Health psychology, Social science

Approaches

Culture & Multicultural Factors, Ethics, Qualitative Research

International links

United Kingdom

(Wellcome Centre for Medical Humanites, University of Durham) Sister institution

Selected publications

Two Paths to Heaven's Gate

(National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 2006)

Irresistible forces: Australian Women in Science

(Melbourne University Press, 2005)

Contagion

(Routledge, 2001)

Publications

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Books

Hooker, L. (2005). Irresistible forces: Australian Women in Science. Australia: Melbourne University Press.

Edited Books

Hooker, L. (2006). Two Paths to Heaven's Gate. United States: National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
Bashford, A., Hooker, L. (2001). Contagion. London: Routledge.

Book Chapters

Stone, A., Hooker, L. (2018). Medically unexplained symptoms and the ethics of diagnosis: What does it mean when the doctor says there's nothing wrong? In Carol-Ann Farkas (Eds.), Reading the Psychosomatic in Medical and Popular Culture: Something. Nothing. Everything, (pp. 40-55). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Hooker, L., Degeling, C., Mason, P. (2016). Dying a Natural Death: Ethics and Political Activism for Endemic Infectious Disease. In Kari Nixon, Lorenzo Servitje (Eds.), Endemic: Essays in contagion theory, (pp. 265-290). London: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Hooker, L., Macneill, P. (2016). Literature. In Henk ten Have (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics, (pp. 1789-1799). Switzerland: Springer. [More Information]
Hooker, L. (2014). Ethics and the Arts in the Medical Humanities. In Not known (Eds.), Ethics and the Arts, (pp. 213-224). TBC. [More Information]
Crosbie, K., Richters, J., Hooker, L., Leask, J. (2013). Filthy fingernails and friendly germs: lay concepts of contagious disease transmission in developed countries. In Cathy Banwell, Stanley Ulijaszek, Jane Dixon (Eds.), When Culture Impacts Health: Global Lessons for Effective Health Research, (pp. 67-84). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Academic Press. [More Information]
Hooker, L., Leask, J., King, C. (2012). Media Ethics and Infectious Disease. In Christian Enemark, Michael J Selgelid (Eds.), Ethics and Security Aspects of Infectious Disease Control: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, (pp. 161-178). Farnham, UK: Ashgate.
Hooker, L. (2010). Dr. Osler and Dr. Lydgate: George Eliot's Middlemarch. In Michael A. LaCombe, David J. Elpern (Eds.), Osler's bedside library : great writers who inspired a great physician, (pp. 155-169). Philadelphia: ACP Publishing Pty, Limited.
Hooker, L. (2010). George Eliot. In Michael A. LaCombe, David J. Elpern (Eds.), Osler's bedside library : great writers who inspired a great physician, (pp. 153-178). Philadelphia: ACP Publishing Pty, Limited.
Hooker, L. (2010). History and qualitative research. In Ivy Bourgeault, Robert Dingwall, Raymond De Vries (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research, (pp. 265-286). London: Sage Publications.
Hooker, L. (2010). History and Social Change in Health and Medicine. In Ivy Bourgeault, Robert Dingwall, Raymond De Vries (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research, (pp. 265-286). London: Sage Publications.
Hooker, L. (2008). SARS as a "Health Scare". In S. Harris Ali, Roger Keil (Eds.), Networked Disease: Emerging Infections in the Global City, (pp. 123-137). United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. [More Information]
Hooker, L. (2004). Hygiene. In Maryanne Cline Horowitz (Eds.), New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, (pp. 1064-1068). Detroit: Charles Scribners & Sons Publishing.
Hooker, L. (2001). Sanitary Failure and Risk: Pasteurisation, immunisation and the logics of prevention'. In Alison Bashford and Claire Hooker (Eds.), Contagion: historical and cultural studies, (pp. 129-152). London and New York: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.

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Journals

Robinson, P., Levy, D., Hooker, L., Shaban, R., Nahidi, S., Leask, J., Wiley, K. (2023). COVID-19 testing decisions and behaviours in two Australian cities. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 34(2), 587-594. [More Information]
Williams, J., Hooker, L., Gilbert, G., Hor, S., Degeling, C. (2023). Disagreement among experts about public health decision making: is it polarisation and does it matter? BMJ Global Health, 8(3). [More Information]
Hooker, L., Kerridge, I., MacKay, K., Lipworth, W. (2022). A Discursive Exploration of Values and Ethics in Medicine: The Scholarship of Miles Little. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 19(1), 15-20. [More Information]
Carr, S., Harris, A., Scott, K., Ani-Amponsah, M., Hooker, L., Phillips, B., Noya, F., Mavaddat, N., Vuillermin, D., Reid, S., et al (2022). InspirE5: a participatory, internationally informed framework for health humanities curricula in health professions education. BMC Medical Education, 22(1). [More Information]
Hooker, L., Kerridge, I. (2022). Response—Liminality and the Mirage of Settlement. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 19(1), 55-60. [More Information]
Nash, L., Scott, K., Pit, S., Barnes, E., Ivory, K., Hooker, L. (2021). Evaluation of a workshop using verbatim theatre stimuli to address challenging workplace situations: a pilot study. The Clinical Teacher, 18, 43-50. [More Information]
Carr, S., Noya, F., Phillips, B., Harris, A., Scott, K., Hooker, L., Mavaddat, N., Ani-Amponsah, M., Vuillermin, D., Reid, S., et al (2021). Health Humanities curriculum and evaluation in health professions education: a scoping review. BMC Medical Education, 21(1), 568. [More Information]
Gallagher, S., Little, J., Hooker, L. (2021). Testimonial injustice: discounting women's voices in health care priority setting. Journal of Medical Ethics, 47(11), 744-747. [More Information]
Brooks, M., Hooker, L., Barclay, L. (2020). Artspace: Enabling young women's recovery through visual arts: A qualitative study. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 31(3), 391-401. [More Information]
Leask, J., Hooker, L. (2020). How risk communication could have reduced controversy about school closures in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Public Health Research and Practice, 30(2), e3022007. [More Information]
Hooker, L., Leask, J. (2020). Risk Communication Should be Explicit About Values. A Perspective on Early Communication During COVID-19. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 17, 581-589. [More Information]
Iedema, R., Jorm, C., Hooker, L., Hor, S., Wyer, M., Gilbert, G. (2020). To follow a rule? On frontline clinicians' understandings and embodiments of hospital-acquired infection prevention and control rules. Health, 24(2), 132-151. [More Information]
Hooker, L., Hor, S., Wyer, M., Gilbert, G., Jorm, C., Iedema, R. (2020). Trajectories of hospital infection control: Using non-representational theory to understand and improve infection prevention and control. Social Science & Medicine, 256, 1-9. [More Information]
Dalton, J., Ivory, K., Macneill, P., Nash, L., River, J., Dwyer, P., Hooker, L., Williams, D., Scott, K. (2020). Verbatim Theater: Prompting Reflection and Discussion about Healthcare Culture as a Means of Promoting Culture Change. Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 32(5), 531-540. [More Information]
Gallagher, S., Little, J., Hooker, L. (2019). Evidence, Emotion and Eminence: A Qualitative and Evaluative Analysis of Doctors' Skills in Macroallocation. Health Care Analysis, 27(2), 93-109. [More Information]
Kowalski, M., Hooker, L., Barratt, M. (2019). Should we smoke it for you as well? An ethnographic analysis of a drug cryptomarket environment. International Journal of Drug Policy, 73, 245-254. [More Information]
Gallagher, S., Little, M., Hooker, L. (2018). The values and ethical commitments of doctors engaging in macroallocation: a qualitative and evaluative analysis. BMC Medical Ethics, 19(1), 1-13. [More Information]
Brooks, M., Barclay, L., Hooker, L. (2018). Trauma-informed care in general practice: Findings from a women's health centre evaluation. Australian Journal of General Practice, 47(6), 370-375. [More Information]
Bennett, P., Hooker, L. (2018). What artists value when providing workshops for clinical students in a regional training setting: a qualitative study. Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 9(3), 319-335. [More Information]
Fitzpatrick, S., Hooker, L. (2017). A 'systems' approach to suicide prevention: Radical change or doing the same things better? Public Health Research and Practice, 27(2), 1-4. [More Information]
Cheung, W., Myburgh, J., McGuinness, S., Chalmers, D., Parke, R., Blyth, F., Seppelt, I., Parr, M., Hooker, L., Blackwell, N., Kol, M., Kerridge, I., Naganathan, V., et al (2017). A cross-sectional survey of Australian and New Zealand public opinion on methods totriage intensive care patients in an influenza pandemic. Critical Care and Resuscitation, 19(3), 254-265. [More Information]
Hor, S., Hooker, L., Iedema, R., Wyer, M., Gilbert, G., Jorm, C., O'Sullivan, M. (2017). Beyond hand hygiene: a qualitative study of the everyday work of preventing cross-contamination on hospital wards. BMJ Quality and Safety, 26(7), 552-558. [More Information]
Hooker, L., Capon, A., Leask, J. (2017). Communicating about risk: strategies for situations where public concern is high but the risk is low. Public Health Research and Practice, 27(1), 1-5. [More Information]
Hooker, C., Capon, A., Hess, I. (2017). Communicating with the public about the risks of naturally occurring asbestos. Public Health Research and Practice, 27(5), 1-5. [More Information]
Scott, K., Berlec, S., Nash, L., Hooker, L., Dwyer, P., Macneill, P., River, J., Ivory, K. (2017). Grace Under Pressure: A Drama-based Approach to Tackling Mistreatment of Medical Students. Medical Humanities, 43(1), 68-70. [More Information]
Wyer, M., Iedema, R., Hor, S., Jorm, C., Hooker, L., Gilbert, G. (2017). Patient involvement can affect clinicians’ perspectives and practices of infection prevention and control: A “post-qualitative” study using video-reflexive ethnography. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 16(1), 1-10. [More Information]
Marshall, G., Hooker, L. (2016). Empathy and affect: what can empathied bodies do? Medical Humanities, 42(2), 128-134. [More Information]
Iedema, R., Hor, S., Wyer, M., Gilbert, G., Jorm, C., Hooker, L., O'Sullivan, M. (2015). An innovative approach to strengthening health professionals' infection control and limiting hospital-acquired infection: video-reflexive ethnography. BMJ Innovations, 1(4), 157-162. [More Information]
Mayes, C., Hooker, L., Kerridge, I. (2015). Bioethics and Epistemic Scientism. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 12(4), 565-567. [More Information]
Wyer, M., Jackson, D., Iedema, R., Hor, S., Gilbert, G., Jorm, C., Hooker, L., O'Sullivan, M., Carroll, K. (2015). Involving patients in understanding hospital infection control using visual methods. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 24(11-12), 1718-1729. [More Information]
Fitzpatrick, S., Hooker, L., Kerridge, I. (2015). Suicidology as a social practice. Social Epistemology, 29(3), 303-322. [More Information]
Ivory, K., Hooker, L., Mooney-Somers, J. (2015). The future of conference posters: 'hipster and geek!'. Medical Education, 49(5), 529-530. [More Information]
Hooker, L. (2015). Understanding empathy: why phenomenology and hermeneutics can help medical education and practice. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 18(4), 541-552. [More Information]
Hooker, L., Mayes, C., Degeling, C., Gilbert, G., Kerridge, I. (2014). Don't be scared, be angry: the politics and ethics of Ebola. Medical Journal of Australia, 201(6), 352-354. [More Information]
Narayan, K., Hooker, L., Jarrett, C., Bennett, D. (2013). Exploring young people's dignity: A qualitative approach. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 49(11), 891-894. [More Information]
Dowd, K., Taylor, M., Toribio, J., Hooker, L., Dhand, N. (2013). Zoonotic disease risk perceptions and infection control practices of Australian veterinarians: call for change in work culture. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 111(1-2), 17-24. [More Information]
Hooker, L., King, C., Leask, J. (2012). Journalists' views about reporting avian influenza and a potential pandemic: a qualitative study. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, 6(3), 224-229. [More Information]
Lipworth, W., Hooker, L., Carter, S. (2011). Balance, Balancing, and Health. Qualitative Health Research, 21(5), 714-725. [More Information]
Carter, S., Rychetnik, L., Lloyd, B., Kerridge, I., Baur, L., Bauman, A., Hooker, L., Zask, A. (2011). Evidence, Ethics, and Values: A Framework for Health Promotion. American Journal of Public Health, 101(3), 465-472. [More Information]
Hooker, L., Noonan, E. (2011). Medical humanities as expressive of Western culture. Medical Humanities, 37, 79-84. [More Information]
Lipworth, W., Davey, H., Carter, S., Hooker, L., Hu, W. (2010). Beliefs and beyond: what can we learn from qualitative studies of lay people's understandings of cancer risk? Health Expectations, 13(2), 113-124. [More Information]
Parsons, A., Hooker, L. (2010). Dignity and Narrative Medicine. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 7(4), 345-351. [More Information]
Hooker, L. (2010). Health scares: Professional priorities. Health, 14(1), 3-21. [More Information]
Leask, J., Hooker, L., King, C. (2010). Media coverage of health issues and how to work more effectively with journalists: a qualitative study. BMC Public Health, 10, 1-7. [More Information]
Hooker, L., Ali, S. (2009). SARS and Security: Health in the 'New Normal'. Studies in Political Economy: a socialist review, 84, 101-127.
Carter, S., Hooker, L., Davey, H. (2009). Writing Social Determinants Into and Out of Cancer Control: An Assessment of Policy Practice. Social Science and Medicine, 68(8), 1448-1455. [More Information]
Hooker, L., Carter, S., Davey, H. (2009). Writing the risk of cancer: cancer risk in public policy. Health, Risk and Society, 11(6), 541-560. [More Information]
Hooker, L. (2008). The Medical Humanities: A brief introduction. Australian Family Physician, 37(5), 369-370. [More Information]
Hooker, L., Chapman, S. (2007). 'Our youth must be protected from drug abuse': talking tobacco control in the New South Wales Parliament from the 1960s to the twenty-first century. Health and History, 9(1), 106-128.
Hooker, L., Pols, H. (2007). Health, Medicine, and the Media. Health and History, 8(2), 1-13.
Hooker, L., Chapman, S. (2006). Deliberately personal: Tobacco control debates and deliberative democracy in New South Wales. Critical Public Health, 16(1), 35-46. [More Information]
Hooker, L. (2006). Eugenics in Australia: Striving for national fitness. ISIS, 97(4), 784-786. [More Information]
Hooker, L., Pols, H. (2006). Health, Medicine and the Media. Health and History, 8(2), 1-13.
Hooker, L. (2003). No Lazy History. Metascience, 12(3), 381-384.
Hooker, L. (2003). Rethinking our habits: Review of Learning to Smoke (Jason Hughes). Tobacco Control, 12(3), 340-340.
Hooker, L., Bashford, A. (2002). Diphtheria and Australian Public Health: Bacteriology and Its Complex Applications, c1890-1930. Medical History, 46, 41-64. [More Information]
Hooker, L. (2002). Diphtheria, immunisation and the Bundaberg tragedy: a study in public health in Australia. Health and History, 2, 52-78.

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Conferences

Dowd, K., Taylor, M., Toribio, J., Hooker, L., Dhand, N. (2012). Factors influencing veterinarians' use of personal protective equipment. 13th International Symposium on Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics, Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers.
Dhand, N., Dowd, K., Taylor, M., Toribio, J., Hooker, L. (2012). Zoonotic disease perceptions and practices of australian veterinarians. Australian Veterinary Association Annual Conference, Darwin: Australian Veterinary Association.

Other

Hooker, L., Macneill, P., River, J., Scott, K., Nash, L., Ivory, K. (2017), Grace Under Pressure (Sydney Arts & Health Collective play script collaboration).

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2023

Robinson, P., Levy, D., Hooker, L., Shaban, R., Nahidi, S., Leask, J., Wiley, K. (2023). COVID-19 testing decisions and behaviours in two Australian cities. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 34(2), 587-594. [More Information]
Williams, J., Hooker, L., Gilbert, G., Hor, S., Degeling, C. (2023). Disagreement among experts about public health decision making: is it polarisation and does it matter? BMJ Global Health, 8(3). [More Information]

2022

Hooker, L., Kerridge, I., MacKay, K., Lipworth, W. (2022). A Discursive Exploration of Values and Ethics in Medicine: The Scholarship of Miles Little. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 19(1), 15-20. [More Information]
Carr, S., Harris, A., Scott, K., Ani-Amponsah, M., Hooker, L., Phillips, B., Noya, F., Mavaddat, N., Vuillermin, D., Reid, S., et al (2022). InspirE5: a participatory, internationally informed framework for health humanities curricula in health professions education. BMC Medical Education, 22(1). [More Information]
Hooker, L., Kerridge, I. (2022). Response—Liminality and the Mirage of Settlement. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 19(1), 55-60. [More Information]

2021

Nash, L., Scott, K., Pit, S., Barnes, E., Ivory, K., Hooker, L. (2021). Evaluation of a workshop using verbatim theatre stimuli to address challenging workplace situations: a pilot study. The Clinical Teacher, 18, 43-50. [More Information]
Carr, S., Noya, F., Phillips, B., Harris, A., Scott, K., Hooker, L., Mavaddat, N., Ani-Amponsah, M., Vuillermin, D., Reid, S., et al (2021). Health Humanities curriculum and evaluation in health professions education: a scoping review. BMC Medical Education, 21(1), 568. [More Information]
Gallagher, S., Little, J., Hooker, L. (2021). Testimonial injustice: discounting women's voices in health care priority setting. Journal of Medical Ethics, 47(11), 744-747. [More Information]

2020

Brooks, M., Hooker, L., Barclay, L. (2020). Artspace: Enabling young women's recovery through visual arts: A qualitative study. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 31(3), 391-401. [More Information]
Leask, J., Hooker, L. (2020). How risk communication could have reduced controversy about school closures in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Public Health Research and Practice, 30(2), e3022007. [More Information]
Hooker, L., Leask, J. (2020). Risk Communication Should be Explicit About Values. A Perspective on Early Communication During COVID-19. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 17, 581-589. [More Information]
Iedema, R., Jorm, C., Hooker, L., Hor, S., Wyer, M., Gilbert, G. (2020). To follow a rule? On frontline clinicians' understandings and embodiments of hospital-acquired infection prevention and control rules. Health, 24(2), 132-151. [More Information]
Hooker, L., Hor, S., Wyer, M., Gilbert, G., Jorm, C., Iedema, R. (2020). Trajectories of hospital infection control: Using non-representational theory to understand and improve infection prevention and control. Social Science & Medicine, 256, 1-9. [More Information]
Dalton, J., Ivory, K., Macneill, P., Nash, L., River, J., Dwyer, P., Hooker, L., Williams, D., Scott, K. (2020). Verbatim Theater: Prompting Reflection and Discussion about Healthcare Culture as a Means of Promoting Culture Change. Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 32(5), 531-540. [More Information]

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2019

Gallagher, S., Little, J., Hooker, L. (2019). Evidence, Emotion and Eminence: A Qualitative and Evaluative Analysis of Doctors' Skills in Macroallocation. Health Care Analysis, 27(2), 93-109. [More Information]
Kowalski, M., Hooker, L., Barratt, M. (2019). Should we smoke it for you as well? An ethnographic analysis of a drug cryptomarket environment. International Journal of Drug Policy, 73, 245-254. [More Information]

2018

Stone, A., Hooker, L. (2018). Medically unexplained symptoms and the ethics of diagnosis: What does it mean when the doctor says there's nothing wrong? In Carol-Ann Farkas (Eds.), Reading the Psychosomatic in Medical and Popular Culture: Something. Nothing. Everything, (pp. 40-55). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Gallagher, S., Little, M., Hooker, L. (2018). The values and ethical commitments of doctors engaging in macroallocation: a qualitative and evaluative analysis. BMC Medical Ethics, 19(1), 1-13. [More Information]
Brooks, M., Barclay, L., Hooker, L. (2018). Trauma-informed care in general practice: Findings from a women's health centre evaluation. Australian Journal of General Practice, 47(6), 370-375. [More Information]
Bennett, P., Hooker, L. (2018). What artists value when providing workshops for clinical students in a regional training setting: a qualitative study. Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 9(3), 319-335. [More Information]

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2017

Fitzpatrick, S., Hooker, L. (2017). A 'systems' approach to suicide prevention: Radical change or doing the same things better? Public Health Research and Practice, 27(2), 1-4. [More Information]
Cheung, W., Myburgh, J., McGuinness, S., Chalmers, D., Parke, R., Blyth, F., Seppelt, I., Parr, M., Hooker, L., Blackwell, N., Kol, M., Kerridge, I., Naganathan, V., et al (2017). A cross-sectional survey of Australian and New Zealand public opinion on methods totriage intensive care patients in an influenza pandemic. Critical Care and Resuscitation, 19(3), 254-265. [More Information]
Hor, S., Hooker, L., Iedema, R., Wyer, M., Gilbert, G., Jorm, C., O'Sullivan, M. (2017). Beyond hand hygiene: a qualitative study of the everyday work of preventing cross-contamination on hospital wards. BMJ Quality and Safety, 26(7), 552-558. [More Information]
Hooker, L., Capon, A., Leask, J. (2017). Communicating about risk: strategies for situations where public concern is high but the risk is low. Public Health Research and Practice, 27(1), 1-5. [More Information]
Hooker, C., Capon, A., Hess, I. (2017). Communicating with the public about the risks of naturally occurring asbestos. Public Health Research and Practice, 27(5), 1-5. [More Information]
Hooker, L., Macneill, P., River, J., Scott, K., Nash, L., Ivory, K. (2017), Grace Under Pressure (Sydney Arts & Health Collective play script collaboration).
Scott, K., Berlec, S., Nash, L., Hooker, L., Dwyer, P., Macneill, P., River, J., Ivory, K. (2017). Grace Under Pressure: A Drama-based Approach to Tackling Mistreatment of Medical Students. Medical Humanities, 43(1), 68-70. [More Information]
Wyer, M., Iedema, R., Hor, S., Jorm, C., Hooker, L., Gilbert, G. (2017). Patient involvement can affect clinicians’ perspectives and practices of infection prevention and control: A “post-qualitative” study using video-reflexive ethnography. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 16(1), 1-10. [More Information]

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2016

Hooker, L., Degeling, C., Mason, P. (2016). Dying a Natural Death: Ethics and Political Activism for Endemic Infectious Disease. In Kari Nixon, Lorenzo Servitje (Eds.), Endemic: Essays in contagion theory, (pp. 265-290). London: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Marshall, G., Hooker, L. (2016). Empathy and affect: what can empathied bodies do? Medical Humanities, 42(2), 128-134. [More Information]
Hooker, L., Macneill, P. (2016). Literature. In Henk ten Have (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics, (pp. 1789-1799). Switzerland: Springer. [More Information]

2015

Iedema, R., Hor, S., Wyer, M., Gilbert, G., Jorm, C., Hooker, L., O'Sullivan, M. (2015). An innovative approach to strengthening health professionals' infection control and limiting hospital-acquired infection: video-reflexive ethnography. BMJ Innovations, 1(4), 157-162. [More Information]
Mayes, C., Hooker, L., Kerridge, I. (2015). Bioethics and Epistemic Scientism. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 12(4), 565-567. [More Information]
Wyer, M., Jackson, D., Iedema, R., Hor, S., Gilbert, G., Jorm, C., Hooker, L., O'Sullivan, M., Carroll, K. (2015). Involving patients in understanding hospital infection control using visual methods. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 24(11-12), 1718-1729. [More Information]
Fitzpatrick, S., Hooker, L., Kerridge, I. (2015). Suicidology as a social practice. Social Epistemology, 29(3), 303-322. [More Information]
Ivory, K., Hooker, L., Mooney-Somers, J. (2015). The future of conference posters: 'hipster and geek!'. Medical Education, 49(5), 529-530. [More Information]
Hooker, L. (2015). Understanding empathy: why phenomenology and hermeneutics can help medical education and practice. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 18(4), 541-552. [More Information]

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2014

Hooker, L., Mayes, C., Degeling, C., Gilbert, G., Kerridge, I. (2014). Don't be scared, be angry: the politics and ethics of Ebola. Medical Journal of Australia, 201(6), 352-354. [More Information]
Hooker, L. (2014). Ethics and the Arts in the Medical Humanities. In Not known (Eds.), Ethics and the Arts, (pp. 213-224). TBC. [More Information]

2013

Narayan, K., Hooker, L., Jarrett, C., Bennett, D. (2013). Exploring young people's dignity: A qualitative approach. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 49(11), 891-894. [More Information]
Crosbie, K., Richters, J., Hooker, L., Leask, J. (2013). Filthy fingernails and friendly germs: lay concepts of contagious disease transmission in developed countries. In Cathy Banwell, Stanley Ulijaszek, Jane Dixon (Eds.), When Culture Impacts Health: Global Lessons for Effective Health Research, (pp. 67-84). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Academic Press. [More Information]
Dowd, K., Taylor, M., Toribio, J., Hooker, L., Dhand, N. (2013). Zoonotic disease risk perceptions and infection control practices of Australian veterinarians: call for change in work culture. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 111(1-2), 17-24. [More Information]

2012

Dowd, K., Taylor, M., Toribio, J., Hooker, L., Dhand, N. (2012). Factors influencing veterinarians' use of personal protective equipment. 13th International Symposium on Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics, Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers.
Hooker, L., King, C., Leask, J. (2012). Journalists' views about reporting avian influenza and a potential pandemic: a qualitative study. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, 6(3), 224-229. [More Information]
Hooker, L., Leask, J., King, C. (2012). Media Ethics and Infectious Disease. In Christian Enemark, Michael J Selgelid (Eds.), Ethics and Security Aspects of Infectious Disease Control: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, (pp. 161-178). Farnham, UK: Ashgate.
Dhand, N., Dowd, K., Taylor, M., Toribio, J., Hooker, L. (2012). Zoonotic disease perceptions and practices of australian veterinarians. Australian Veterinary Association Annual Conference, Darwin: Australian Veterinary Association.

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2011

Lipworth, W., Hooker, L., Carter, S. (2011). Balance, Balancing, and Health. Qualitative Health Research, 21(5), 714-725. [More Information]
Carter, S., Rychetnik, L., Lloyd, B., Kerridge, I., Baur, L., Bauman, A., Hooker, L., Zask, A. (2011). Evidence, Ethics, and Values: A Framework for Health Promotion. American Journal of Public Health, 101(3), 465-472. [More Information]
Hooker, L., Noonan, E. (2011). Medical humanities as expressive of Western culture. Medical Humanities, 37, 79-84. [More Information]

2010

Lipworth, W., Davey, H., Carter, S., Hooker, L., Hu, W. (2010). Beliefs and beyond: what can we learn from qualitative studies of lay people's understandings of cancer risk? Health Expectations, 13(2), 113-124. [More Information]
Parsons, A., Hooker, L. (2010). Dignity and Narrative Medicine. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 7(4), 345-351. [More Information]
Hooker, L. (2010). Dr. Osler and Dr. Lydgate: George Eliot's Middlemarch. In Michael A. LaCombe, David J. Elpern (Eds.), Osler's bedside library : great writers who inspired a great physician, (pp. 155-169). Philadelphia: ACP Publishing Pty, Limited.
Hooker, L. (2010). George Eliot. In Michael A. LaCombe, David J. Elpern (Eds.), Osler's bedside library : great writers who inspired a great physician, (pp. 153-178). Philadelphia: ACP Publishing Pty, Limited.
Hooker, L. (2010). Health scares: Professional priorities. Health, 14(1), 3-21. [More Information]
Hooker, L. (2010). History and qualitative research. In Ivy Bourgeault, Robert Dingwall, Raymond De Vries (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research, (pp. 265-286). London: Sage Publications.
Hooker, L. (2010). History and Social Change in Health and Medicine. In Ivy Bourgeault, Robert Dingwall, Raymond De Vries (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research, (pp. 265-286). London: Sage Publications.
Leask, J., Hooker, L., King, C. (2010). Media coverage of health issues and how to work more effectively with journalists: a qualitative study. BMC Public Health, 10, 1-7. [More Information]

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2009

Hooker, L., Ali, S. (2009). SARS and Security: Health in the 'New Normal'. Studies in Political Economy: a socialist review, 84, 101-127.
Carter, S., Hooker, L., Davey, H. (2009). Writing Social Determinants Into and Out of Cancer Control: An Assessment of Policy Practice. Social Science and Medicine, 68(8), 1448-1455. [More Information]
Hooker, L., Carter, S., Davey, H. (2009). Writing the risk of cancer: cancer risk in public policy. Health, Risk and Society, 11(6), 541-560. [More Information]

2008

Hooker, L. (2008). SARS as a "Health Scare". In S. Harris Ali, Roger Keil (Eds.), Networked Disease: Emerging Infections in the Global City, (pp. 123-137). United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. [More Information]
Hooker, L. (2008). The Medical Humanities: A brief introduction. Australian Family Physician, 37(5), 369-370. [More Information]

2007

Hooker, L., Chapman, S. (2007). 'Our youth must be protected from drug abuse': talking tobacco control in the New South Wales Parliament from the 1960s to the twenty-first century. Health and History, 9(1), 106-128.
Hooker, L., Pols, H. (2007). Health, Medicine, and the Media. Health and History, 8(2), 1-13.

2006

Hooker, L., Chapman, S. (2006). Deliberately personal: Tobacco control debates and deliberative democracy in New South Wales. Critical Public Health, 16(1), 35-46. [More Information]
Hooker, L. (2006). Eugenics in Australia: Striving for national fitness. ISIS, 97(4), 784-786. [More Information]
Hooker, L., Pols, H. (2006). Health, Medicine and the Media. Health and History, 8(2), 1-13.
Hooker, L. (2006). Two Paths to Heaven's Gate. United States: National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

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2005

Hooker, L. (2005). Irresistible forces: Australian Women in Science. Australia: Melbourne University Press.

2004

Hooker, L. (2004). Hygiene. In Maryanne Cline Horowitz (Eds.), New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, (pp. 1064-1068). Detroit: Charles Scribners & Sons Publishing.

2003

Hooker, L. (2003). No Lazy History. Metascience, 12(3), 381-384.
Hooker, L. (2003). Rethinking our habits: Review of Learning to Smoke (Jason Hughes). Tobacco Control, 12(3), 340-340.

2002

Hooker, L., Bashford, A. (2002). Diphtheria and Australian Public Health: Bacteriology and Its Complex Applications, c1890-1930. Medical History, 46, 41-64. [More Information]
Hooker, L. (2002). Diphtheria, immunisation and the Bundaberg tragedy: a study in public health in Australia. Health and History, 2, 52-78.

2001

Bashford, A., Hooker, L. (2001). Contagion. London: Routledge.
Hooker, L. (2001). Sanitary Failure and Risk: Pasteurisation, immunisation and the logics of prevention'. In Alison Bashford and Claire Hooker (Eds.), Contagion: historical and cultural studies, (pp. 129-152). London and New York: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.

Selected Grants

2024

Harnessing Arts and Cultural Practices to transform Australias Health and Care Ecosystem The HaArts of Care Node, Hooker L, Sydney Policy Lab/Sydney Policy Lab Node
Transforming river management through art, science and ancient knowledges, Hooker L, Sydney Environment Institute/Collaborative Grant

2023

Activating Arts and Culture in Disaster Management, Hooker L, DVC Research/External Research Collaboration Seed Funding

2021

Preparing Australia for the next pandemic: Managing controversy; promoting trust., Degeling C, Williams J, Hooker L, Hor S, Gilbert G, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)/Ideas Grant
Improving decisions about access to stem cell interventions, Kerridge I, Stewart C, Hooker L, Rudge C, Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal)/MRFF - Stem Cell Therapies
Improving decisions about access to stem cell interventions, Lipworth W, Stewart C, Munsie M, Kerridge I, Lysaght T, Hooker L, Rudge C, Tanner C, Gyngell C, Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal)/MRFF - Stem Cell Therapies

2018

Students providing constructive feedback to their peers on assessment tasks, Schlub T, Mathieu E, Dickson M, Hooker L, Kite J, Li M, Manalo G, Teixeira-Pinto A, DVC Education/Large Educational Innovation Grant
Paint the Pain: Investigating the physiological, social, and psychological impacts of visual arts creation in patients with primary chronic pain- A pilot randomised controlled trial study, Pourkazemi F, McKay M, Elliott J, Vassallo A, Evans A, Hooker L, DVC Research/Industry & Community Engagement Seed Fund (I&CEF)

2016

Grace Under Pressure: A verbatim theatre innovation to drive culture change in clinical training, Hooker L, Scott K, Ivory K, Nash L, Dwyer P, River J, Macneill P, DVC Education/Large Educational Innovation Grant

2013

NETWORK FOR ORGANS, BODIES AND TISSUES (NBOT), Stewart C, Anderson W, Cashman P, Cooper M, Griffiths P, Hooker L, Jordens C, Kerridge I, Lupton D, Magnusson R, Michael M, Pols H, Race K, Salkeld G, Savell K, Scott Bray R, Shewan L, Waldby C, DVC Research/Research Network Scheme (SyReNS)

2010

Strengthening frontline clinicians infection control: A multi-method study to reduce MRSA infection and transmission, Iedema R, Gilbert G, Hooker L, O'Sullivan M, Jorm C, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)/Project Grants

2009

Reconceptualising health promotion: the role of values, ethics and evidence in obesity, Carter S, Hooker L, Kerridge I, Rychetnik L, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)/Project Grants
Developing clinical ethics capacity in NSW through partnership, Carter S, Cheung P, Clout T, Hooker L, Hu W, Jordens C, Kerridge I, Letts J, Mills C, Mitchell J, Stewart C, Thackway S, Walters W, Little J, Health Administration Corporation/Research Support

2006

How do lay people understand the risk of developing cancer A qualitative study using grounded theory procedures., Ankeny R, Carter S, Hu W, Jordens C, Kerridge I, Komesaroff P, McCaffery K, Hooker L, Thomas S, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)/Project Grants

2003

Comparing health scares in Canada and Australia: managing health risks between public fears and professional priorities, Hooker L, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)/Early Career Fellowships

In the media

Coronavirus Anxiety (Sydney Ideas and ABC RN)

Changemakers Podcast Episode #27, This Is A Big Moment.

In The Conversation

Hooker, C. ‘I have never felt so frightened’: Australia’s coronavirus schools messaging must address teacher concerns. The Conversation. April 17, 2020.

Creagh, S., Hooker, C., Cheng, A., Blyth, C., Kidson, P. and Collignon, P. Schools are open during the coronavirus outbreak but should I voluntarily keep my kids home anyway, if I can? We asked 5 experts. The Conversation. March 19, 2020.

Hooker, C., 9 ways to talk to people who spread coronavirus myths. The Conversation. February 13, 2020.

Hooker, C., Silva, D. and Anderson, M. Coronavirus fears can trigger anti-Chinese prejudice. Here’s how schools can help. The Conversation. January 31, 2020.

Hooker, C. and Kerridge, I. ‘I want to stare death in the eye’: why dying inspires so many writers and artists. The Conversation. February 6, 2020.

Hooker, C & Kimberley I. 2015, Medicine needs to swallow a bitter pill for a healthier future, The Conversation, 13 Mar 2015; republished on 17 Mar 2015 as 'Boys club' needs to swallow a bitter pill in 6Minutes, a daily newsletter sent to Australian GPs and other healthcare professionals.

Hooker, C., & Leask J., 2014, Listen up, health officials ? here's how to reduce 'Ebolanoia', The Conversation, 6 Nov 2014; republished on croakey, the Crikey health blog on 7 Nov 2014 and cross-posted to The Communication Initiative (CI) Network ? The Drum Beat on 5 Jan 2015.

2014: What are the critical health issues for G20 leaders? Croakey, the Crikey health blog, Interview with Michelle Hughes, 13 Nov

Claire has been sought by numerous journalists worldwide in relation to risk communication for COVID-19, see eg:

Saad B Omer, Is America Ready for Another Outbreak? New York Times. January 23, which links to & draws from Hooker and Leask: Listen up officials, here’s how to avoid Ebolanoia. The Conversation. November 6, 2014.

Interviewed for and quoted in Time Magazine. Laignee Barron, What We Can Learn From Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong About Handling Coronavirus. March 13, 2020.

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