The Centre for WA History

Health, Mental Illness & Disability


Social Policy in Western Australia, Charlie Fox (ed.), 25, 2007


Article

  • ‘I am a Poor Woman’: Gender, Poor Relief and the Poorhouse in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Western Australia
    Kellie Abbott & Celia Chesney
  • The Rise and Fall of Rehabilitation in the Western Australian Prison System, 1966-1991
    Norman Megahey
  • Baby Farming in Western Australia: The Case Against Alice Mitchell, 1907
    Penelope Hetherington
  • ‘Inefficients at best and criminal at worst’:Juvenile Delinquency in Western Australia during the Interwar Years
    Rosemary Kerr
  • The Children’s Protection Society:Child Protection in Western Australia, 1906-1930
    Towards a Medical-Welfare Model
    Leanne Rowe
  • The Origins of Mental Health Social Work in Western Australia: A Psychiatric ‘Re-conception’
    Marcia Foley
  • Compensating the Tubercular Miner: An Occupational Health Solution to a Public Health Problem
    Criena Fitzgerald
  • ‘Awakened by angels’: Personal Narratives of Perinatal Death in Late Twentieth-Century Western Australia and Their Effect on Hospital Policies and Programmes
    Susannah Thompson


Building a Colony: the Convict Legacy, Jacqui Sherriff & Anne Brake (eds), 24, 2006


Article

  • A Class of Utterly Useless Men: Convict Lunatics in Western Australia
    Margaret McPherson


Perspectives on Sport and Society, Ed Jaggard & Jan Ryan (eds), 18, 1997

Book or other review

  • Cocks, E., Fox, C., Brogan, M. and Lee, M. (eds.) Under Blue Skies: The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability in Western Australia
    Rosemary Berreen


Historical Traces, Jenny Gregory (ed.), 17, 1997

Article

  • Contours of Madness: Montgomery’s Claremont – Quickly Falls the Shadow
    Peter McClelland
Book or other review

  • Julie Marshall, Starting with Threepence: the Story of Princess Margaret Hospital for Children
    Philippa Martyr


Asian Orientations, Jan Gothard (ed.), 16, 1995

Article

  • Jumna Khan
    Charlie Fox


Historical Refractions, Charlie Fox (ed.), 14, 1993

Articles

  • More Than a Minor Nuisance: Insanity in Colonial Western Australia
    Norman Megahey
  • The Birth and Death of the Clinic: Ethel Stoneman and the State Psychology Clinic, 1927-1930
    Andrea Gaynor & Charlie Fox
  • Protectors of the Public? Medical orthodoxy and the suppression of alternative practice in Western Australia, 1870-1914
    Philippa Martyr


European-Aboriginal Relations in Western Australian History, Bob Reece & Tom Stannage (eds), 8, 1984

Article

  • The Lock Hospitals Experiment: Europeans, Aborigines and Venereal Disease
    Mary Anne Jebb


Women in Western Australian History, Patricia Crawford (ed.), 7, 1983

Article

  • Anorexia Nervosa
    Helen Maddocks
Book or other reviews

  • Geoffrey Bolton and Prue Joske, History of Royal Perth Hospital
    Anthea Hyslop
  • Edith Jacobson, Tinctures and Tact
    Margaret Brown


Bosses, Workers and Unemployed, Lenore Layman (ed.), 5, 1982

Book or other review

  • W. S. Davidson, Havens of Refuge: a History of Leprosy in Western Australia
    Bryan Gandevia


Studies in Western Australian History, 2, 1978

Article

  • Cleansing the Dunghill: Water Supply and Sanitation in Perth 1878-1912
    Su-Jane Hunt & Geoffrey Bolton


Studies in Western Australian History, 1, 1977

Article

  • Lunacy and Social Reform in Western Australia 1886-1903
    Roger Virtue
Book or other review

  • G. D. Snooks, Depression and Recovery in Western Australia
    John Robertson