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ABOUT
ROSS L. JONES

Historian and Author

BA Hons (Melb) Dip. Ed. (Melb) M.Ed.Stud. (Monash) Ph.D. (Monash)

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Current Position:
 

Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne, Indigenous History of the University of Melbourne Project

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Honorary Senior Fellow, Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne (2021 - current)

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Previous positions:
 

Associate, Centre for Health Law and Society (CHLS), La Trobe University (2017 - 2020)

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Redmond Barry Fellow, State Library of Victoria and the University of Melbourne (2016 - 2017)

 

Senior Fellow, Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne (2007 - 2020)

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Associate, Department of History, University of Sydney(2013 - 2017)

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Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sydney (2009 - 2012)

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Casual Lecturer, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne (2001 - 2006)

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Fellow, Department of History and Philosophy of Science and the Centre for Health and Society (2003 – 2006)

Ross L. Jones | Historian & Author

Scholarly works

2021

 

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2020

 

  • Anatomists of Empire: Race, Evolution and the Discovery of Human Biology in the British World (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2020)

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2019

 

  • Malcolm Macmillan: Snowy Campbell: Australian Pioneer Investigator of the Brain. Australian Scholarly Publishing: North Melbourne, 2016, 390 + xi pp., illus., ISBN: 9781925333749 (PB), $44.00, book review, Historical Records of Australian Science, 2019, 30, 64-5

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2018

 

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2017

 

  • ‘Thinking dangerous thoughts: Post-primary education and eugenics in Australia: 1905-1939’ in Hamish Spencer, Diane Paul and John Stenhouse (eds), Eugenics at the Edges of Empire: New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa (Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/3319646850

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  • ‘Sir Peter MacCallum: Change Agent and Institutional Architect’, in Jacqueline Healy (ed.) The Cancer Puzzle: patterns, paradoxes, and personalities, (Melbourne: University of Melbourne, 2017)

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  • ‘Tuberculosis, tuberculin and cultural collections’, University of Melbourne Collections, issue 21, December 2017: 50-53

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2015

 

  • ‘Two Australian Foetuses: Frederic Wood Jones and the work of an anatomical specimen.’ with Lisa O’Sullivan, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 89: 2 (Summer) 2015: 243-266. This was an invited contribution for a special issue of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, edited by Carin Berkowitz and Eva Åhrén (accepted 3 April 2014)

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  • ‘Wandering Anatomists and Itinerant Anthropologists: the Antipodean Sciences of Race in Britain between the Wars’, British Journal for the History of Science, with Warwick H Anderson, 48 (1) March 2015: 1-16 (published online 7 November 2013)

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  • ‘Harry Brookes Allen: Personal and Professional Response to the War’, in Jacqueline Healy (ed.), Compassion and Courage: Australian Doctors and Dentists in the Great War, (Melbourne: University of Melbourne, 2015)

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  • ‘World War I, Melbourne Medical Students and the Medical Course’ in Jacqueline Healy (ed.), Compassion and Courage: Australian Doctors and Dentists in the Great War, (Melbourne: University of Melbourne, 2015)

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2014

 

  • ‘No interest in human anatomy as such”: Frederic Wood Jones dissects anatomical investigation in the United States in the 1920s’, Endeavour, 38 (1) March 2014: 35-42 (published online 5 November 2013) 

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2013

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  • ‘Macaws, elephants, and mahouts: Frederic Wood Jones, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Human Biology project’, Australian Historical Studies, 44:2, 2013: 189-205

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  • Martin Gibbs: Charles Martin: his life and letters. Published by the author: London, 2011. 256 pp., ISBN: 978-0-9529101-4-5, book review Historical Records of Australian Science, vol, 24, no. 1, 2013, pp. 167-8

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  • Veronica Bondarew, & Peter Seligman: The Cochlear Story. (Canberra: CSIRO publishing, 2012), book review Historical Records of Australian Science, 24 (2013), pp. 341-2

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2012

 

  • ‘Cadavers and the Social Dimension of Dissection’ in Sarah Ferber and Sally Wilde (eds), The Body Divided: Human Beings and Human Materials in the History of Medical Science, (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012)

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  • ‘Introduction’ in Henry Atkinson, Jacqueline Healy, Ryan Jeffries, Jennifer Long, Rachel McMillan, Louise Murray (eds), A Body of Knowledge: in celebration of 150 Years of Melbourne Medical School 1862-2012, (Melbourne: University of Melbourne, 2012)

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  • ‘The Eye and Ear Hospital, in Henry Atkinson, Jacqueline Healy, Ryan Jeffries, Jennifer Long, Rachel McMillan, Louise Murray (eds), A Body of Knowledge: in celebration of 150 Years of Melbourne Medical School 1862-2012, (Melbourne: University of Melbourne, 2012)

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  • ‘Dissection Classes in the New Medical School’ in Jacqueline Healy (ed.), Highlights of the Collection: Medical History Museum (Melbourne: University of Melbourne, 2012)

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  • ‘Pioneering Medical Administrator and Government Advisor’, in Jacqueline Healy (ed.), Highlights of the Collection: Medical History Museum (Melbourne: University of Melbourne, 2012)

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  • ‘Extravagant Claims of Cures’ in Jacqueline Healy (ed.), Highlights of the Collection: Medical History Museum (Melbourne: University of Melbourne, 2012)

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  • ‘Sir Geoffrey Newman-Morris’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 18, 2012 (published December 2012)

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2011

 

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2010

 

  • Shannon Faulkhead and Jim Berg with Lynette Russell, Ross L. Jones, and Jason Eades, Power and Passion: Our Ancestors Return Home, (Melbourne: Koorie Heritage Trust, 2010)

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  • ‘Medical Schools and Aboriginal Bodies’ in Shannon Faulkhead and Jim Berg with Lynette Russell, Ross L. Jones, and Jason Eades, Power and Passion: Our Ancestors Return Home, (Melbourne: Koorie Heritage Trust, 2010)

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  • ‘Speculum’, feature article in Chiron, Journal of the University of Melbourne Medical Society 2010, p 2, University of Melbourne

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2009

 

  • ‘Removing Some of the Dust from the Wheels of Civilization: William Ernest Jones and the 1928 Commonwealth Survey of Mental Deficiency’, Australian Historical Studies, 40: 1 (March 2009), 62-77

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  • ‘Unpeeling Another Curate’s Egg’, Metascience, 18:1 (March 2009), 165-7

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  • Cecil G. Helman, Medical Anthropology: The International Library of Essays in Anthropology, Ashgate, Aldershot, England, 2008, book review, Health and History, 11: 2 (2009), 161-2

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2008

 

  • Review of ‘Claire Muir, The Medical History Society of Victoria 1953—2006, Melbourne, The Medical History Society of Victoria Inc, 2007’ Historical Records of Australian Science, 19 (2008), 228-9

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2007

 

  • Humanity’s Mirror: 150 Years of Anatomy in Melbourne, (Melbourne: Haddington Press, 2007)

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2005

 

  • Diana Wyndham, Eugenics in Australia: Striving for National Fitness (Diana Wyndham and the Galton Institute, 2003) book review, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 60 (April 2005): 238-40

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2002

 

  • ‘The Master Potter and the Rejected Pots: Eugenic Legislation in Victoria 1918-1939’, Australian Historical Studies, 30: 113 (October 1999) 319-342, reprinted in Janice Giltrow, ed., Academic Reading, 2nd edition, Broadview Press, Peterborough, Canada, 2002

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1999

 

  • ‘The Master Potter and the Rejected Pots: Eugenic Legislation in Victoria 1918-1939’, Australian Historical Studies, 30: 113 (October 1999) 319-342

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1998

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  • ‘The Rogers-Templeton and Pearson Royal Commissions: Contemporary Views of the 1872 Education Act’, History of Education Review, vol. 27, no. 2, 1998, pp. 50-66

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  • Broberg, Gunnar and Roll-Hansen, Nils (eds), Eugenics and the Welfare State: Sterilization Policy in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland, Michigan State Press, Michigan, 1996 in Health and History, Bulletin of the Australian Society for the History of Medicine, 1:1  (1998):  90-2

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