Honorary Professor Jon Adams

Dr Jon Adams

Honorary Professor
Sociology

j.adams1@uq.edu.au
 

Qualifications:

PhD (Health Social Science), University of Edinburgh (UK), 2000
MA (Sociology), University of Leeds (UK), 1995
Postgraduate Diploma (Applied Statistics with Computing), University of Wales (UK), 1993
BA - Hons (Sociology), University of Wales (UK), 1992

Professional Activities:

Professor of Public Health, University of Technology Sydney
Executive Director, NORPHCAM
NHMRC Career Development Fellow (2011-2015)
Senior Fellow, International Brisbane Initiative, Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford
PHCRED Research Fellowship, Dept of Health and Ageing
Associate Editor, Complementary Therapies in Medicine (Elsevier)
International Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics and the Journal of Chinese Integrative Medicine.
 

Background:

Visiting Professor, Confucius Institute for Traditional Chinese Medicine, London South Bank University, UK
UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards recipient, 2007

Research interests:

• Use and practice of complementary and alternative medicines(CAM)
• CAM integration in primary care
• CAM in rural health
• CAM in women's health
• CAM in the health care of older adults

Project sites:

The Sociology of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Representative Publications:

Journal articles

Meurk, C., Broom, A., Adams, J. and Sibbritt, D. (2012) Bodies of knowledge: Nature, holism and women’s plural health practices. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine DOI: 10.1177/1363459312447258

Broom, A. & Adams, J. (2009) Oncology clinicians’ accounts of discussing complementary and alternative medicine with their patients. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 13(3): 317-336.

Broom, A., Adams, J. & Tovey, P. (2009) Evidence-based healthcare in practice: A study of clinical resistance, professional deskilling, and inter-specialty differentiation in oncology. Social Science and Medicine 68: 192–200.

Broom, A. & Adams, J. (2010) The reconfiguration of expertise in oncology: The practice of prediction and articulation of indeterminacy in medical consultations. Qualitative Health Research 20(10), 1433–1445

Adams, J., Lui, C., Sibbritt, D., Broom, A., Homer, C. & Beck, S. (2009) Women’s use of complementary and alternative medicine during pregnancy: a critical review of the literature. Birth: Issues in Perinatal Health

36(3), 237-245.

Magin, P., Adams, J., Sibbritt, D., Ireland, M., Joy, E. (2005) Experiences of occupational violence in Australian general practice: A cross-sectional study of GPs. Medical Journal of Australia 183: 352-356.

Boughtwood, D., Adams, J., Shanley, C., Santalucia, Y. & Kyriazopoulos, H., Pond , D., Rowland, J. (2011) Experiences and perceptions of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) family carers of people with dementia. American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias 26(4), 290-297.

Johnson, C., Girgis, A., Paul, C., Currow, D., Adams, J. & Aranda, S. (2011) Australian palliative care providers’ perceptions and experiences of the barriers and facilitators to palliative care provision. Supportive Care in Cancer 19(3), 343-351.

Adams, J., Sibbritt, D. & Young, A. (2005) Naturopathy/herbalism consultations by mid-age women who have cancer. European Journal of Cancer Care 14, 443-447.

Adams, J., Sibbritt, D., Easthope, G. & Young, A. (2003) The profile of women who consult alternative health practitioners in Australia. Medical Journal of Australia 179(6), 297-300.

Tovey, P. & Adams, J. (2001) Primary care as intersecting social worlds. Social Science and Medicine 52, 695-706.
 

Books

Adams J, Tovey P (Eds) (2008) Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Nursing and Midwifery: Towards a Critical Social Science. London & New York: Routledge.

Adams J (Ed) (2007) Researching Complementary and Alternative Medicine. London & New York: Routledge.

Tovey P, Easthope G, Adams J (Eds) (2003) The Mainstreaming of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Studies in Social Context. London & New York: Routledge.


Book chapters

Adams J, Broom A. (in press) The status of complementary and alternative medicine in allopathic medical education. In Caragh B, Turner B. (Eds) The Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education. London & New York: Routledge

Andrews G, Adams J, Segrott J (in press) Alternative medicine and the concept of care. In Brown T, McLafferty S, Moon G (Eds) The Companion to Health and Medical Geography. London: Blackwell.

Adams J, Tovey P (2007) Nostalgic and nostophobic referencing in CAM nursing: A text analysis. In Adams J, Tovey P (Eds) Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Nursing and Midwifery: Towards a Critical Social Science. London & New York: Routledge.

Adams J, Tovey P (2007) Towards a critical social science of CAM in nursing and midwifery. In Adams J, Tovey P (Eds) Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Nursing and Midwifery: Towards a Critical Social Science. London & New York: Routledge.

Adams J (2007) Introduction: Broadening the CAM research gaze. In Adams J (Ed) (2007) Researching Complementary and Alternative Medicine. London & New York: Routledge.

Felice de Barros N, Tovey P, Adams J (2005) Utilising qualitative methods to explore complementary medicine. In Felice de Barros N (Ed) Qualitative Health Research: International Perspectives. Unicamp University Press: Sao Paulo (in Portuguese)

Adams J (2003) Demarcating the medical/non-medical border: occupational boundary-work within general practitioners' accounts of their integrative practice. In Tovey P, Easthope G, Adams J (Eds) The Mainstreaming of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Studies in Social Context. London & New York: Routledge.

Adams J, Tovey P (2003) CAM and nursing: from advocacy to critical sociology. In Tovey P, Easthope G, Adams J (Eds) The Mainstreaming of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Studies in Social Context. London & New York: Routledge.

Tovey P, Easthope G, Adams J (2003) Towards the mainstreaming of complementary and alternative medicine. In Tovey P, Easthope G, Adams J (Eds) The Mainstreaming of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Studies in Social Context. London & New York: Routledge.

Adams J, Tovey P (2000). Complementary medicine and primary care: towards a grassroots focus. In Tovey P (Ed.). Contemporary Primary Care: The Challenges of Change. Buckingham: Open University Press.

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