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List of works by Peter Hobbins

"Outside the institute there is a desert": the tenuous trajectories of medical research in interwar Australia

scientific article

'Living in Hell but Still Smiling': Australian Psychiatric Casualties of War during the Malaya-Singapore Campaign, 1941-42

A Spur to Atavism: Placing Platypus Poison

scientific article

A step towards more ethical prayer studies

scientific article published in October 2006

Accident Conscious: Accounting for Flying Accidents in the Royal Australian Air Force during the Second World War

scientific article published on 11 November 2019

Are We Post-COVID Yet? Kill or Cure? A Taste of Medicine . State Library of New South Wales, 30 July 2022–22 January 2023

scientific article published on 2 January 2023

Born on the voyage: Inscribing emigrant communities in the twilight of sail

scientific article published in November 2019

Collecting the crisis or the collecting crisis? A survey of Covid-19 archives

scientific article published on 2 July 2020

Compromised ethical principles in randomised clinical trials of distant, intercessory prayer

scientific article

Emulating the “pucker factor”: Faith, fidelity and flight simulation in Australia, 1936–58

scientific article published on 9 August 2022

Enigma, gift, commodity, curse

From Camels to Cats: Experimenting with Medicine in the Australian Flying Corps

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Geographies of commemoration: Angel Island, San Francisco and North Head, Sydney

scholarly article by Alison Bashford et al published April 2016 in Journal of Historical Geography

Health, Medicine and the Sea: Australian Voyages c.1815–1860

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Heidi Dokulil invites us to embrace concrete Sydney Brutalism , by Heidi Dokulil, Sydney, NewSouth Publishing, 2023, 226 pp., $AU49.99, ISBN 9781742236698. Publisher’s website: https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au

scientific article published on 2 January 2024

Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914 by Rob Boddice

scientific article published in April 2022

Imaging characteristics following 90yttrium microsphere treatment for unresectable liver cancer

scientific article published on April 2011

Imperial Science or the Republic of Poison Letters?

Isolated cases? The history and historiography of Australian medical research

scientific article

Liberal eugenics: In defence of human enhancement

Medicine and Colonialism: Historical Perspectives in India and South Africa, written by Poonam Bala

scientific article published on 25 July 2016

Michael Bennett’s global sweep of disease prevention and health politics War Against Smallpox: Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination , by Michael Bennett, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, 423 pp., $54.95, ISBN: 978-0-521-14

scientific article published on 2 January 2021

Mobilising Medical Knowledge for the Nation, 1943–49

Rewriting Quarantine: Pacific History at Australia's Edge

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Rubbery assumptions

scientific article published on 6 January 2023

Science and medicine

Sydney’s Landscape of Quarantine

The Spirit of the Service: Dash, Discipline, and Flying Accidents in the Royal Australian Air Force, 1921–48

scientific article published on 14 April 2024

The Whole Country is Poisoned: Fratning Disease Mortality in the Historiography of the South African War

scholarly article by Peter Hobbins published May 2009 in War and Society

The forgotten successes and sacrifices of Charles Kellaway, director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, 1923-1944

scientific article

The goal of our ambition: the transformation of medical education and research at Australian Universities, 1914–20

scientific article published on 2 January 2021

Unearthing the Optics of War

scholarly article

Union Jack or Yellow Jack? Smallpox, Sailors, Settlers and Sovereignty

article by Peter Hobbins published 4 May 2017 in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

‘No complaints’: counter-narratives of immigration and detention in graffiti at North Head Immigration Detention Centre, Australia 1973–76

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