Other Writing

This is a selected list of Helen’s other writing thus far, published in books, journals, magazines and quality broadsheets.

'In the Interests of Science: Gathering Bodies in Lunatic Asylums', pp. 139-160 in Cathy Coleborne and Dolly MacKinnon (eds), Exhibiting Madness in Museums: Remembering Psychiatry through Collections and Display (New York, Routledge), 2011

A review of Eva Ahren's Death, Modernity, and the Body in Sweden 1870-1940, Health and History, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2011, pp. 117-119

A review of Carol Freeman's Paper Tiger: A Visual History of the Thylacine for Island, Issue 124, forthcoming April 2011 

'Ocean Enlivened', a review of Simon Winchester's Atlantic: The Biography of an Ocean, for Weekend Australian, 4-5 September 2010, p.22

'A History of Getting Under our Skin', a review of Maryrose Cuskelly's Original Skin: Exploring the Marvels of the Human Hide for Weekend Australian, 17 July 2010, p.21 

A review of Lisa Rosner's The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most heinous Crimes for Social History of Medicine, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2010, pp.435-436

‘The Anatomy Inspector and the Government Corpse’, History Australia, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2009, pp.40.1-40.17

‘Procuring Corpses: England’s Anatomy Inspectorate, 1842 to 1858’, Medical History, Vol. 53, No. 3, 2009, pp.379-396

‘Picturing Dissection’, a review of John Harley Warner and James M. Edmonson’s Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930, for Health and History, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2009, pp.147-149

‘”Humanity’s discards”: The New South Wales Anatomy Act, 1881’, Mortality, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2007, pp.365-382

‘A Scandalous Act: Regulating Anatomy in a British Settler Colony’, Social History of Medicine, Vol. 20, Issue 1, 2007, pp.39-56

‘Possessing Bodies’, Meanjin, Vol. 66, No. 3, 2007, pp.88-98

‘Consent Still Matters to the Nameless Dead’, Age, 21 May 2007, p.11

‘Shared History’, Weekend Australian, 24-25 February 2007, Review p.2

‘Organ Donation is Just That – A Gift from One to Another’, Age, 8 February 2007, p.17

 ‘Writing History’, Victorian Writer, September 2007, p.13

‘MacKenzie, William Colin’, in W.F. Bynum and Helen Bynum (eds), Dictionary of Medical Biography: Volume 4: M-R (Westport, CT, Greenwood Press), 2007, pp.824-5

‘Under your Skin’, New Scientist, Vol. 190, Issue 2550, 6 May 2006, p.51

‘When a Body sees a Body’, Age A2, 26 August, 2006, p.18

‘Novel Views of History’, Weekend Australian, 25-26 March 2006, Review pp.14-15

‘Reading the “Foreign Skull”: An Episode in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Human Dissection’, Australian Historical Studies, No. 125, April 2005, pp.81-96. This article won the Max Kelly Medal from the History Council of New South Wales.

‘Public Executions’ (pp.293-4), ‘Anatomy Act' (p.16), Alison Alexander (ed.), Companion to Tasmanian History, Tasmanian Historical Research Association, Hobart, 2005

‘The Bone Collectors’, New Literatures Review, No. 42, 2004, pp.45-56

‘A Dissection in Reverse: Mary McLauchlan, Hobart Town, 1830’, Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, No. 13, 2004, pp.12-24

‘Legal Bodies: Dissecting Murderers at the Royal College of Surgeons, London, 1800-1832’, Traffic: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Journal, Vol. 2, 2003, pp.9-30

‘The Body of Evidence’, Age, April 12, 2003