Professor Helen Keane
BA (Auckland), MA (York), PhD (ANU)
Professor, School of Sociology
College of Arts and Social Sciences
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
Social and cultural studies of Health and Medicine, Sociology of Addiction and Drug Use, Embodiment, Gender and Feminist Theory
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
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Gendered Excellence in the Social Sciences (Secondary Investigator)