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Monique is a current PhD candidate at Southern Cross University, and has recently submitted her thesis, titled Australian media representations of herbal medicine and the construction of risk. This was a multi-disciplinary thesis, informed by CAM sociology as well as media studies, and included content analyses of mainstream Australian newspapers as well as the Medical Journal of Australia. The research combined both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Her research findings have been presented nationally and internationally.

Monique's research interests include:

• Media representations of CAM issues and events and the effects on media audiences.
• The construction of risk in discourse about CAM.
• Sociological investigations into the health professions, particularly relating to professional territoriality and tensions, tactics of professional legitimisation, and marginalisation.
• Exploring competing knowledge systems and truth-claims in the health professions and the impact of these on the public.
• Exploration of 『lay' versus 『expert' knowledge.
• Investigation into the phenomenon of public trust in the professions and government institutions.
• Investigating CAM usage as part of the healthcare consumer movement, and considering the social evolution of CAM in the context of commercialisation and globalisation.

  

 BA (First Class Hons), University of Melbourne

Lewis, M. (2011), 'Biomedical media representations of herbal medicine and the construction of risk', Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (in press, accepted 15 April 2011).

 

Lewis, M., Orrock, P. and Myers, S.P. (2010), 'Uncritical reverence in CM reporting: Assessing the scientific quality of Australian news media reports', Health Sociology Review, 19, 1, 57‐73.

Jagtenberg, T., Evans, S., Grant, A., Howden, I., Lewis, M. and Singer, J. (2006), 'Evidence‐based medicine and naturopathy', Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine, 12, 3, 323‐328.

 

  

 

 

Lewis, M. (2010), 'Risk and efficacy in biomedical media representations of herbal medicine and CAM', International Congress of Complementary Medicine Research 2010, Tromso, Norway, 19-21 May. 

 

Lewis, M. (2010), 'Representations of herbal medicine in mainstream Australian newspapers', Complementary Healthcare Council 2010 National Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 28-29 October.