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Dr

Madonna Grehan

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School of Health Sciences
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social conditions
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Dr

Madonna Grehan

 
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Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
 
Primary Interest
Women's Labour History
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Safely delivered? Insights into late nineteenth-century Australian maternity care from coronial investigations into maternal deaths

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Book Chapter  |  2015

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Visioning the Future by Knowing the Past

MM GREHAN

Book Chapter  |  2014

The new edition of this popular nursing text introduces students to the theory, language and scholarship of contemporary nursing.

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Safely thro’ her confinement: bearing and rearing babies in nineteenth century Port Phillip and Colonial Victoria

MM GREHAN

Journal article  |  2014  |  La Trobeana: Journal of the CJ La Trobe Society

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A Mouthful of Flies: the explosive diary of a desert nurse by Sue Currie

MM GREHAN

Journal article  |  2014  |  The Hive

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Lyons, Margaret Anne (Gretta): Nurse, private hospital owner, unionist

MM GREHAN

Reference Work  |  2014

Active in nursing's professional and political sphere for twenty-five years, Gretta Lyons' advocacy for rank and file nurses chall..

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Farquharson, Martha Durward: Nurse, administrator, private hospital owner

MM Grehan

Reference Work  |  2014

The larger part of Martha Farquharson's almost forty-year career as a nurse was spent in Victoria, where she was an exemplar of ea..

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Lady Marian Barrett (1860-1939) an artwork history, revised edition

MM GREHAN

Curated Exhibition, Event or Festival  |  2014

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Defining Leadership in Nursing

MM Grehan

Reference Work  |  2014

TDefining leadership and nominating leaders in Australian nursing can depend on one's personal standpoint. The annals of Australia..

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Pines, Stella Edith Lottie: Broadcaster, Journalist, Nurse

MM GREHAN

Reference Work  |  2014

In the 1930s, Stella Pines led a movement which sought to make postgraduate education for nurses available at Australian universit..

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Australia’s Controversial Matron: Gwen Burbidge and Nursing Reform

MM GREHAN

Journal article  |  2013  |  Victorian Historical Journal, the Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Nursing
Health and Support Services
Historical Studies
History and Philosophy of Specific Fields
Clinical Sciences
Clinical (organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions)
Criminology
Public Health
Understanding Past Societies

News

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The carers, advocates and reformers of women’s health

Madonna Grehan

July 11, 2019

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2020

Finalist, Van Diemen's History Prize 2020-2021, Forty South Publishing
2020

Marian Barrett Medal, Dept Nursing, University of Melbourne
2019

Centaur Silver Medal, Centaur Memorial Fund for Nurses QLD
2018

The American connection: recruiting Australian nurses as ‘citizens of world nursing’ c.1885-1902

University of Virginia (USA), Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry, Barbara Brodie Nursing History Fellowship, USD $3000
2015

'Something tangible to show our gratitude’: a History of Queensland's Centaur Memorial Fund for Nurses

John Oxley Library Fellowship, State Library of Queensland, $20,000
2014

Abbotsford Convent Melbourne Volunteer Social History Tour Guide

Yarra Council VIC, Australia Day Award Community Service
2013

An émigré gentlewoman midwife in Port Phillip and Victoria 1848-1880

CJ La Trobe Society Fellowship, State Library Victoria,
2,500
2011

The twelve Australian Army Nursing Service nurses of the 2/3 Australian Hospital Ship Centaur

Royal College of Nursing, Australia, RCNA Bequest Grant,
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2009

Highly Commended +$500, for 'Heroes or villains? midwives, nurses, and maternity care in mid-nineteenth century Australia', Traffic, Journal of UMGSA

University of Melbourne Graduate Student Association
2009

for a Signficance Assessment of the Nurses Memorial Centre Historical Collection

National Library of Australia, Community Heritage Grant
2009

An early Melbourne Model? A Diploma of Nursing at the University of Melbourne 1920-1945

University of Melbourne, History of the University Unit Grant
2001

PhD Scholarship Professional Aspirations and Consumer Expectations: Nurses, Midwives and Women's Health

ARC SPIRT University of Melbourne and Royal Women's Hospital Melbourne

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Honorary

School of Health Sciences

Honorary

Nursing

Member

Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation

Member

Oral History Association of Australia

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Melbourne

Health Ethics

University of Melbourne

Certificates & Licences

Certificate in General Nursing

Mater Misericordiae Public Hospitals Brisbane

Awarded: Jan 01, 1981

Certificate in Midwifery

Rockhampton Base Hospital

Awarded: Jan 01, 1984

Occupational Health and Safety

Holmesglen TAFE

Awarded: Jul 01, 1997

Sexual Health & Reproduction

Family Planning Victoria

Awarded: Dec 01, 1998

Languages

English

International Linkages

University of Virginia

USA