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Professor Evan Willis
“Climate Change and Medical Sociology”
Evan Willis is Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean (Regions) at La Trobe University in Melbourne. Born in New Zealand, he has spent his working life in Australia with stints in Canada, the UK (de Montfort University), Norway and New Zealand. He has taught medical sociology as well as public health for more than 30 years and at various times advised governmental inquiries especially in the medical technology assessment field. His Ph.D. entitled ‘Medical Dominance’ (1982) was awarded the Jean Martin Prize for the best thesis in Sociology in Australasia in a two year period. The book of the same name (1983, rev edn 1989) was in 2003 voted by peers as one of the ten most influential books in the history of Australasian sociology. In 2006, he edited a special edition of the journal Health Sociology Review entitled ‘Medical Dominance Revisited’. He is also well known for his primer on the discipline of Sociology entitled ‘The Sociological Quest’ (first published in 1993) which has four Australasian editions, an international as well as a Norwegian edition (with Aksel Tjora). It features in the Wikipedia entry for Sociology. His broad interests in medical sociology lie in the health care workforce, medical technology assessment, genomics, complementary and alternative medicine, rural health, and more recently the heath implications of climate change. |
