Dr Andrea Whittaker, BA PhD Qld
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Background
Andrea Whittaker is a medical anthropologist in a joint position between the Key Centre and the Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages and Societies. Her primary research interests relate to reproductive health, gender and development in Thailand with a major study published in 2004 on abortion in Thailand. Her Australian research includes studies on general practice, gender and diabetes and family formation. Her current research funded by the Australian Research Council involves a study on infertility, assisted reproductive technologies and reproductive tourism in Thailand and the region.
Research Interests
- Reproductive health
- Consequences of unintended pregnancies
- Infertility and assisted reproductive technologies
- Reproductive tourism
- Research methodologies
Research in Progress
- Infertility, IVF and Reproductive Tourism in Thailand and the Region
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Perceived Influences Upon Australian Family Formation Decisions
Key Publications
Whittaker A. (in press ) Pleasure and pain: Medical tourism in Asia. Global Public health: An international journal for research, policy and practice.
Belton S, and Whittaker A. (2007). Kathy Pan, sticks and pummelling: techniques used to induce abortion by Burmese women on the Thai border. Social Science and Medicine 65,7: 1512-1523
CarmichaelGA and Whittaker A. (2007a) Choice and circumstance: Qualitative insights into contemporary childlessness in Australia, European Journal of Population. 23(2):111-216.
Carmichael GA, and Whittaker A. (2007b) Forming relationships in Australia: Qualitative insights into a process important to human wellbeing, Journal of Population Research 24(1):23-49.
Carmichael GA and Whittaker A. (2007c) Living together in Australia: Qualitative insights into a complex phenomenon. Journal of Family Studies, 13(2):202–223.
Broom D, and Whittaker A. (2004). Controlling diabetes, controlling diabetics: Moral language in the management of diabetes type 2. Social Science and Medicine 58(11):2371-2382.
Whittaker A. (2003) Abortion law reform advocacy in Thailand. Development, 46,2:72-79.
Whittaker A. (ed) (2002). Women's Health in Mainland South-east Asia. Haworth Press: West Hazelton (simultaneously co-published as a Special Issue of Women and Health).
Whittaker A. (2002). 'The truth of our day by day lives': Abortion decision-making in rural Thailand. Culture, Health and Sexuality 4(1), 1 - 20.
Whittaker A. (2000) Intimate Knowledge: Women and their Health in Northeast Thailand. Women in Asia Publication Series, Allen and Unwin: Melbourne.
Books
Whittaker A. (ed.) in press. Abortion in Asia: Local dilemmas, global politics. London: Berghahn.
Whittaker A. (2004). Abortion, Sin and the State in Thailand. Routledge-Curzon: London.
Chapters in Books
Whittaker, A. (in press) Introduction: Local dilemmas, global politics. In Abortion in Asia: Local dilemmas, global politics. London: Berghahn.
Whittaker, A. (in press) Epilogue: Further Challenges. In Abortion in Asia: Local dilemmas, global politics. London: Berghahn.
Whittaker A. (2004) ‘Reproductive health’ In M.Ember and C.Ember (eds) Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures. Kluwer Academic Publishers: New York, 280-290.
Banwell C and Whittaker, A. (2003) Community capacity checklists: use cautiously amid complexity. In W Weeks, L. Hoatson and J Dixon (eds) Community Practices in Australia Pearson Education Australia, Frenches Forest, 127-132.