Journal articles

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Joseph Banks and the continuing influence of European colonisation on Australian herbal practice, Australian Journal of Medical Herbalism (2009)

The practice of Western herbal medicine in Australia is characterised by a dependence on botanically...

 

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Changing the knowledge base of Western herbal medicine, Science and Medicine (2008)

The project of modernising Western herbal medicine in order to allow it to be accepted...

 

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Debates and issues: scientific vs traditional evidence (with Ramesh Manoca), Journal of Complementary Medicine (2006)
 

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Evidence-based medicine and naturopathy (with Tom Jagtenberg, Airdre Grant, Ian Howden, Monique Lewis, and Judy Singer), Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (2006)

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has been advocated as a new paradigm in orthodox medicine and as...

 

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Global herbal medicine: a critique (with Tom Jagtenberg), Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (2003)

Herbal medicine finds itself at a crossroads. If it continues to become mainstreamed in a...

 

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Chilean stories: exploring herbal medicine in South America, Australian Journal of Medical Herbalism (2002)

I visited Chile for a month to teach herbal medicine and learn about its place...

 

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Herbs and all that jazz: contributions of pop music towards understanding materia medica, European Journal of Herbal Medicine (2001)
 

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Social change and alternative medicine: a herbalist's view, Diversity: natural and complementary health (2000)
 

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The story of naturopathic education in Australia, Complementary Therapies in Medicine (2000)

Early naturopaths in Australia learned their skills via a loose combination of self-education and an...

 

Theses

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Challenge, tension and possibility: an exploration into contemporary western herbal medicine in Australia, PhD thesis, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW (2009)

This thesis is about the contemporary challenges facing herbal medicine. Specifically it concerns the difficulties...

 

Conference publications

Power and knowledge in herbal medicine, Alternative and Complementary Health Researchers Network Conference (2007)
 

Holism and herbal practice: Hearts, a case-based approach, American Herbalists Guild Conference (2006)
 

History of herbal medicine in Australia, Royal Australian College of Physicians: History of Medicine Lectures (2004)
 

Natural and complementary medicine: using different tools, thinking in different ways, Institute of Australasian Psychiatrists Conference (2004)