In this episode of the HASSCast Dr Effie Karageorgos talks through her recent publication, Medical fears of the malingering soldier: ‘phony cronies’ and the Repat in 1960s Australia in the journal Medical History.
Dr Effie Karageorgos is Lecturer in History at the University of Newcastle, Australia and Deputy Convenor of the UON Future of Madness Network. Her research focuses on histories of conflict, violence, gender and psychiatry, specifically soldier and veteran trauma, as well as protest movements. She co-edits Health and History, the official journal of the Australian and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine and runs the Social Production of Mental Health seminar series alongside Dr Natalie Hendry. With Professor Catharine Coleborne, she is pursuing a new history of mental health aftercare funded by the Australian Research Council.
See more of Dr Effie Karageorgos' work through her Google Scholar profile.
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