Areas of expertise

• Culture, Gender, Sexuality 200205
• History And Philosophy Of Medicine 220205
• Sociology 1608
• Other Studies In Human Society 1699
• Cultural Studies 2002

Research interests

Publications

• McQuoid, J, Keane, H & Ling, P 2021, 'Purposeful play: exploring a bar-based, anti-tobacco intervention for young adults', Drugs: education, prevention and policy.
• Keane, H 2020, 'Smoking and Intoxication: From Control to the Buzz', in Fiona Hutton (ed.), Cultures of Intoxication: Key Issues and Debates, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 45-67.
• Moore, D, Keane, H & Duncan, D 2020, 'Enacting alcohol realities: gendering practices in Australian studies on 'alcohol-related presentations' to emergency departments', Sociology of Health and Illness, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 3-19.
• Pearse, R, Hitchcock, J & Keane, H 2019, 'Gender, inter/disciplinarity and marginality in the social sciences and humanities: A comparison of six disciplines', Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 72, pp. 109-126.
• Jenkins, F, Keane, H & Donovan, C 2019, 'Introduction: Gendered innovations in the social sciences', Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 72, p. 103.
• Jenkins, F, Keane, H & Donovan, C 2019, 'Work (still) in progress: Establishing the value of gendered innovations in the social sciences', Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 72, pp. 104-108.
• Pearse, R, Hitchcock, J & Keane, H 2019, 'Gender, inter/disciplinarity and marginality in the social sciences and humanities: A comparison of six disciplines', Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 72, pp. 109-126.
• Bissell, D, Bruce, M, Keane, H et al. 2018, 'Introduction: Belonging unbound', in Anna Tsalapatanis, Miranda Bruce, David Bissell, Helen Keane (ed.), Social Beings, Future Belongings: Reimagining the Social, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, United Kingdom, pp. 1-10.
• Keane, H 2018, 'Facing addiction in America: The Surgeon General's Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health', Drug and Alcohol Review, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 282-283pp.
• Keane, H 2018, 'The object in hand: Social science of the syringe', International Journal of Drug Policy, vol. 61, pp. 66-68pp.
• Keane, H 2017, 'Drugged pleasures: Commentary', International Journal of Drug Policy, vol. 49, pp. 168-170pp.
• Moore, D, Fraser, S, Keane, H et al 2017, 'Missing Masculinities: Gendering Practices in Australian Alcohol Research and Policy', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 32, no. 93, pp. 309-324pp.
• Johnson, N & Keane, H 2017, 'Internet addiction? Temporality and life online in the networked society', Time & Society, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 267-285.
• Keane, H, Weier, M, Fraser, D et al 2017, ''Anytime, anywhere': vaping as social practice', Critical Public Health, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 465-476.
• Keane, H 2016, 'Denormalisation, Public Space and Smoking Identities', Nordisk alkohol- & narkotikatidskrift, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 335-337.
• Keane, H 2016, 'Technological change and sexual disorder', Addiction, vol. 111, no. 12, pp. 2108-2109.
• Keane, H, Fraser, D, Weier, M et al 2015, 'Vapers' perspectives on electronic cigarette regulation in Australia', International Journal of Drug Policy, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 589-594.
• Jenkins, F & Keane, H 2014, 'Gender and Feminism in the Social Sciences: Equity, Excellence and Knowledge in the Disciplines', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 29, no. 80, pp. 107-114.
• Keane, H 2014, 'Feminism and the Complexities of Gender and Health', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 29, no. 80, pp. 180-188.
• Bell, K & Keane, H 2014, 'All gates lead to smoking: The 'gateway theory', e-cigarettes and the remaking of nicotine', Social Science and Medicine, vol. 119, pp. 45-52.
• Keane, H 2014, 'Cigarettes are No Longer Sublime', Australian Humanities Review, vol. 57, no. 2014, pp. 1-20.
• Fraser, S, Moore, D & Keane, H 2014, Habits: Remaking Addiction, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke and New York.
• Keane, H 2013, 'Making smokers different with nicotine: NRT and quitting', International Journal of Drug Policy, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 189-195.
• Keane, H 2013, 'Healthy adults and maternal bodies: Reformulations of gender in Australian alcohol guidelines', Health Sociology Review, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 151-161.
• Keane, H 2013, 'CATEGORISING METHADONE ADDICTION AND ANALGESIA', International Journal of Drug Policy, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. e18-24.
• Keane, H 2013, 'Medicalization or Medicine as Culture? The Case of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder', in Cathy Banwell, Stanley Ulijaszek and Jane Dixon (ed.), When Culture Impacts Health: Global Lessons for Effective Health Research, Elsevier, USA, pp. 57-65.
• Keane, H 2012, 'Editorial: Diagnosing drug problems and the DSM', Contemporary Drug Problems, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 353 - 370.
• Bell, K & Keane, H 2012, 'Nicotine control: E-cigarettes, smoking and addiction', International Journal of Drug Policy, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 242-247.
• Keane, H 2011, 'Drugs that work: Pharmaceuticals and performance self-management', in Suzanne Fraser and David Moore (ed.), The Drug Effect: Health, crime and society, Cambridge University Press, New York USA, pp. 106-121.
• Keane, H 2011, 'Intoxication, harm and pleasure: an analysis of the Australian National Alcohol Strategy', in Kirsten Bell, Darlene McNaughton, Amy Salmon (ed.), Alcohol, Tobacco and Obesity: Morality, mortality and the new public health, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon, UK, pp. 107-118.
• Keane, H, Moore, D & Fraser, S 2011, 'Addiction and Dependence: Making realities in the DSM', Addiction, vol. 106, no. 5, pp. 875-877pp.
• Keane, H 2011, 'The policies of visibility: Drug users and the spaces of drug use', International Journal of Drug Policy, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 407-409.
• Keane, H & Hamill, K 2010, 'Variations in Addiction: The molecular and the molar in neuroscience and pain medicine', BioSocieties: An Interdisciplinary journal for social studies of life sciences, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 52-69.
• Keane, H 2009, 'Intoxication, harm and pleasure: An analysis of the Australian National Alcohol Strategy', Critical Public Health, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 135-142.
• Keane, H 2009, 'Foetal personhood and representations of the absent child in pregnancy loss memorialization', Feminist Theory, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 153-171.
• Keane, H 2008, 'Models of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse', in Pamela Korsmeyer and Henry R Kranzler (ed.), Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol & Addictive Behavior (3rd ed), MacMillan Reference USA, USA.
• Keane, H 2008, 'Rhetoric of Addiction', in Pamela Korsmeyer and Henry R Kranzler (ed.), Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol & Addictive Behavior (3rd ed), MacMillan Reference USA, USA.
• Keane, H 2008, 'Values and Beliefs; Existential Models of Addiction', in Pamela Korsmeyer and Henry R Kranzler (ed.), Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol & Addictive Behavior (3rd ed), MacMillan Reference USA, USA.
• Keane, H 2008, 'Pleasure and discipline in the uses of Ritalin', International Journal of Drug Policy, vol. 19, pp. 401-409.
• Keane, H 2006, 'Time and the Female Smoker', in Elizabeth McMahon and Brigitta Olubas (ed.), Women Making Time: Contemporary Feminist Critique and Cultural Analysis, University of Western Australia Press, Crawley, Western Australia, pp. 94-115.
• Keane, H 2005, 'Addiction and the Bioethics of Difference', in Margrit Shildrick and Roxanne Mykitiuk (ed.), Ethics of the Body: Postconventional Challenges, MIT Press, Massachusetts, United States of America, pp. 91-112.
• Keane, H 2005, 'Diagnosing the male steroid user: drug use, body image and disordered masculinity', Health, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 189-208.
• Keane, H 2005, 'Moral frameworks, ethical engagement and harm reduction: commentary on Ethical challenges and responses in harm reduction research: promoting applied communitarian ethics by C.L. Fry, C. Treloar & L. Maher', Drug and Alcohol Review, vol. 24, pp. 551-552.
• Keane, H 2004, 'Disorders of Desire: Addiction and Problems of Intimacy', Journal of Medical Humanities, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 189-204.
• Keane, H 2003, 'Critiques of harm reduction, morality and the promise of human rights', International Journal of Drug Policy, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 227-232.
• Keane, H 2003, 'Anabolic Steroids and Dependence', Contemporary Drug Problems, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 541-562.
• Keane, H 2002, 'Smoking, Addiction, and the Making of Time', in Janet Farrell Brodie and Marc Redfield (ed.), High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction, University of California Press, California, United States of America, pp. 119-133.
• Keane, H & Rosengarten, M 2002, 'On the Biology of Sexed Subjects', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 17, no. 39, pp. 261-277.
• Keane, H 2002, 'Public and private practices: addiction autobiography and its contradictions', Contemporary Drug Problems, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 567-595.
• Keane, H 2002, What's Wrong with Addiction?, Melbourne University Press (an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing), Victoria, Australia.

Projects and Grants

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• Gendered Excellence in the Social Sciences (Secondary Investigator)