Health Sciences

School of Public Health

Dr Fran McInerney

Contact Details

Email:F.McInerney@latrobe.edu.au
Phone: (03) 9479 1454
International: +61 3 9479 1454
Fax: (03) 9479 1783
International: +61 3 9479 1783
Office: HS1-117B

Qualifications

RN, BAppSc(AdNEd) PIT, MA(Health Studs) La Trobe, PhD La Trobe

Interests

Fran McInerney is a registered nurse and a sociologist. She holds postgraduate qualifications in nursing, education, social science, and public health. She is a part-time lecturer in the La Trobe University Palliative Care Unit, and also works in palliative care nursing practice on a part-time basis. Her research interests include social constructions of death and dying, the media, health workers in palliative contexts, qualitative methodologies, health sociology, novice practice, the nexus between aged and palliative care, and requested death.

Current Research Interests

• Social movements around euthanasia and physician assisted suicide
• Media constructions of the dying and dead
• Spirituality in health care
• Health workers’ perceptions of their role in palliative care contexts
• Mainstreaming in palliative care

Publications

McInerney, F. (2006). Heroic frames: Discursive constructions around the requested death movement in Australia in the last-1990s. Social Science & Medicine, 62(3), 654-667.

McInerney, F. & Robinson, A. 2001. 'Honours in Nursing: The Struggle of Students as Clinicians/Researchers in Practice'. International Journal of Nursing Practice. 7(3), pp.214-20.

McInerney, F. 2000. 'Requested Death: A New Social Movement'. Social Science & Medicine. 50(1), pp.137-54.

Robinson, A., McInerney, F., Sherring, M. & Marlow, A. 1999. 'Developing a Collaborative Preceptor Program Involving Registered Nurses, Students and Faculty'. Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing. 17(1), pp.13-21.

McInerney, F. & Seibold, C. 1995. 'Nurses' Definitions of and Attitudes to Euthanasia'. Journal of Advanced Nursing.22(11), pp.171-182.

McInerney, F. 1992. 'Provision of Food and Fluids in Terminal Care: A Sociological Analysis'. Social Science & Medicine. 34(11), pp.1271-6.