Research Output per year
Personal profile
Biography
Born Perth, WA.
BA (Hons), Joint First Class Honours (History/English), 1991
PhD (History), UWA, 1995
'The professional development of rehabilitation in Australia, 1880-1981'
Supervisor: Professor Norman Etherington
BA (Hons), Joint First Class Honours (History/English), 1991
PhD (History), UWA, 1995
'The professional development of rehabilitation in Australia, 1880-1981'
Supervisor: Professor Norman Etherington
Previous positions
2008-2017 Communications and Research Officer, Clinical Research Centre, North Metropolitan Health Service Mental Health
2011-2016 Editorial Board, Connor Court Quarterly
2008-2016 Book Reviews Editor, Health and History
Editor or peer reviewer since 2008:
Health and History
Journal of Australian Studies
ReCollections: Journal of the National Museum of Australia
Australasian Psychiatry
Media/Culture
PROVenance
International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
Law and History
Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability
Teaching overview
2018 - Semester 1 - SCIE2100 Social Responsibility in Action
2018 - Semester 1 - IMED2208 Issues in Women's Reproductive Health
2012-present - Semester 2 - PHAR1101 Drugs That Changed the World
2018 - Semester 1 - IMED2208 Issues in Women's Reproductive Health
2012-present - Semester 2 - PHAR1101 Drugs That Changed the World
Research
Mental health history, history of medicine, women's history and health, history of Indigenous mental health
Languages
English (fluent)
Bad (fluent).
Bad (fluent).
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Western Australia
Medicine & Life Sciences
Mental Health Services
Medicine & Life Sciences
Psychiatry
Medicine & Life Sciences
Psychiatric Hospitals
Medicine & Life Sciences
Psychosurgery
Medicine & Life Sciences
Pentylenetetrazole
Medicine & Life Sciences
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders
Medicine & Life Sciences
Psychotic Disorders
Medicine & Life Sciences
Network
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Research Output 1994 2018
The Shawcross Affair: Sex, Politics, and Madness in Western Australia, 1937-39
Martyr, P., 2018, In : Health and History. 20, 1, p. 52-71 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
‘A matter for conjecture’: leucotomy in Western Australia, 1947–70
Martyr, P. & Janca, A., Jun 2018, In : History of Psychiatry. 29, 2, p. 199-215Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Psychosurgery
Western Australia
Psychiatry
Electroconvulsive Therapy
Aboriginal people in Western Australian mental hospitals, 1903-1966
Martyr, P. & Davison, S., 2017, In : Social History of Medicine. 23 p., hkx006.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Mental Health Services
Psychiatric Hospitals
Mental Health
Newspapers
United States Public Health Service
A brief history of forensic mental health services in Western Australia
Martyr, P., 31 Jan 2017, In : Australasian Psychiatry. 25, 3, p. 297-299 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Western Australia
Mental Health Services
History
Interviews
Dr Digby Moynagh (1911–1963) and the Graylands Day Hospital, 1959–1965
Martyr, P., 1 Oct 2017, In : Australasian Psychiatry. 25, 5, p. 501-503 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Psychiatry
Deinstitutionalization
Western Australia
Psychiatric Hospitals
Courses
IMED1108 Issues in Women's Health Across the Lifespan
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Course
Press / Media
Missing Persons? Aboriginal people in Western Australian mental hospitals
24/09/18
1 media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
The fake doctors who get away with medical fraud
10/04/18
1 media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
A brief history of fake doctors, and how they get away with it
8/04/18
1 media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
‘Relaxed and pleasant’: women undergoing leucotomy in Western Australia, 1947-1970
2/04/18
1 media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media