Dr Janice Chesters - Senior Lecturer

Academic Qualifications

• BA(Hons), La Trobe University.
• PhD, Monash University.

Research Interests

• Rural mental health and illness services,
• Health sociology,
• History of medicine,
• Drugs and alcohol issues

Research Projects

• Chesters, J. Evaluating Alberton project. Department of Human Services (2002) $18,084
• Han, G.S., Ballis, H., Strasser, S., Chesters, J. (2000). Doctoring rural towns: narratives of rural practice. Monash University Regional Australia Project (SMURF), $6,000.

Selected Publications

Book Chapters

• Chesters, J., Han, G. S., Strasser, S. and Ballis, H. 2001 'Doctoring Rural Towns,' in All Change! Gippsland Perspective on Regional Australia in Transition, eds J. Dibden, M. Fletcher and C. Cocklin, Monash Regional Australia Project, Melbourne.

Journal Articles

• Chesters, J. 2001 'Introduction Agency to Asylum - Isabella's story' Gippsland Heritage Journal, (25): 24-29.
• Han, G. S. and Chesters, J. 2001 ''Chasing Money' and 'Damaged Health': Korean Men in Australia, Part II, Skilled and Busines Migrants', Australian Journal of Primary Health, 7(2): 9-14.
• Han, G. S. and Chesters, J. 2001 ''Chasing Money' and 'Damaged Health': Korean men in Australia, Part 1, 'Amnesty Migrants'', Australian Journal of Primary Health, 7(1): 39-45.
• Wainer, J. & Chesters, J. 2000 ‘Rural mental Health-neither romanticism nor despair’ The Australian Journal of Rural Health, 8: 141-147.
• Chesters, J. 1999 Catherine and Isabella, individual problems and public issues.
• Chesters, J. 1998 'Review of The Last of the Lunatics, by John Cawte', Health and History, 1(1)
• Chesters, J. 1996 ‘Not Under Proper Care and Control: Researching Mental Illness in East Gippsland’, Gippsland Heritage Journal, 20(September).
• Mental illness services at the turn of the century, Individuals & Institutions in The History of Medicine Occasional Papers in Medical History Australia No. 9 Sydney