Lewis, Milton J. 1941- (M.J. Lewis, Milton Lewis, Milton James Lewis)

PERSONAL:

Born October 15, 1941, in Newcastle, Australia; son of Alexander George (in business) and Athole Trace (a homemaker) Lewis; married Elizabeth Anne Beadman, October 6, 1969 (divorced); children: Abigail Ruth. Ethnicity: "European/Caucasian." Education: University of New South Wales, B.A. (with first-class honors and university medal), 1962; Australian National University, M.A., 1973, Ph.D., 1977. Religion: "Anglican (Episcopal)."

ADDRESSES:

Office—Australian Health Policy Institute, D02, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia. E-mail—miltonl@health.usyd.edu.au.

CAREER:

University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, research fellow in preventive and social medicine, 1982-84, research fellow in history, 1984-85, senior research fellow in public health, 1986—, Australian Research Council senior research fellow, 1991-95, National Health and Medical Research Council senior research fellow, 1997-2001.

WRITINGS:

(Under name Milton Lewis; editor, with Roy MacLeod) Disease, Medicine, and Empire: Perspectives on Western Medicine and the Experience of European Expansion, Routledge (New York, NY), 1988.

(Under name Milton Lewis) Managing Madness: Psychiatry and Society in Australia, 1788-1980, Australian Government Publishing Service (Canberra, Australia), 1988.

(Under name M.J. Lewis; editor and author of introduction) J.H.L. Cumpston, Health and Disease in Australia: A History, Australian Government Publishing Service (Canberra, Australia), 1989.

(Editor, with Harold Atwood and Richard Gillespie) New Perspectives on the History of Medicine, University of Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia), 1990.

(Under name Milton Lewis) A Rum State: Alcohol and State Policy in Australia, 1788-1988, Australian Government Publishing Service (Canberra, Australia), 1992.

(Under name Milton Lewis; editor, with Scott Bamber and Michael Waugh) Sex, Disease, and Society: A Comparative History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1997.

(Under name Milton Lewis) Thorns on the Rose: The History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Australia in International Perspective, Australian Government Publishing Service (Canberra, Australia), 1998.

(Under name Milton Lewis; editor, with Philip W. Setel and Maryinez Lyons) Histories of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1999.

(With Stephen R. Leeder) Where to Go from Here? The Need to Construct a Comprehensive National Health Policy, Australian Health Policy Institute (Sydney, Australia), 2001.

The People's Health, Volume 1: Public Health in Australia, 1788-1950, Volume 2: Public Health in Australia, 1950 to the Present, Praeger Publishers (Westport, CT), 2003.

Medicine and Care of the Dying: A Modern History, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2006.

(Editor, with K. MacPherson) Public Health in Asia and the Pacific: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Routledge (New York, NY), 2007.

Contributor of papers to academic journals and of chapters to books.