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Books
Willis, E. (1999) (3rd edn) (2004) (4th edn) The Sociological Quest: an introduction to the study of social life, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.

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Journal Articles
Willis, E. (2008) 'Genomics and Public Health Virtual Issue Introduction, Critical Public Health, pp.1-5.

Coulter, I. and Willis, E. (2007) 'Explaining the Growth of Complementary and Alternative Medicine', Health Sociology Review, Vol.16(3-4): 214-225.

Willis, E. (2006) 'Introduction: taking stock of Medical Dominance’, Health Sociology Review, Vol.15,(2) Dec: 1-12.

Willis. E. and Coulter, Ian (2004) 'The rise and rise of complementary and alternative medicine: a sociological perspective', Medical Journal of Australia 180 (11): 587-589.

Willis, E. (2003) ‘The Politics of evidence and the Evidence for CAM’, Healthcare Papers 5,3: 37-42.

Willis, E. (2002) ‘Public health and the "new genetics": balancing individual and collective outcomes’, Critical Public Health 12,2: 139-151. Also forthcoming in Petersen and Bunting (eds) (2005) Genetic Governance, Taylor and Francis, London,155-169.

Willis, E. and White, Kevin (2002) 'Positivism resurgent: the epistemological foundations of evidence-based medicine’, Health Sociology Review 11, 2: 5-15.

Willis, E., Miller, R. and Wyn, J. (2001) "Gendered Embodiment and Survival for young people with Cystic Fibrosis", Social Science and Medicine 53, 9: 1163-74.

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Book Chapters
Broom, A. and Willis, E. (2007) 'Competing Paradigms and Health Research', in M. Saks and J. Allsop (eds) Researching Health: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods, Sage, London, pp.16-31.

Willis, E. and White, Kevin (2004) 'The challenge of evidence based medicine', in Phillip Tovey, Jon Adams, and Gary Easthope (eds) The Mainstreaming of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Routledge, London.

Willis, E. (2003) ‘Evidence Based Medicine, The Medical Profession and Health Policy’, in V. Lin and B. Gibson (eds) Evidence-based health policy: problems and possibilities, Oxford, Melbourne, 33-42.

Willis, E. (2003) ‘The new genetics and chronic illness’, in C. Walker, C.L. Peterson, N. Millen and C. Martin (eds) Chronic Illness: New Perspectives and New Directions, Tertiary Press, Melbourne, 110-119.

Willis, E. (1999) (rev. edn) (2002), 2nd edn, forthcoming 2005, 3rd edn 'The Human Genome Project: A Sociology of Medical Technology', in J. Germov (ed.) Health Sociology: A Second Opinion, Sydney, Oxford University Press.

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Conferences
Peterson, C. and Willis, E. (2008) 'Recruitment and Retention of Rural GPs: The role of skill substitution and home and work balance', TASA Conference Proceedings, Melbourne.

Willis, E. (2008) 'Doctoring in the Future: Evaluating the "Decline or Stability" Debate', Conference - Health Systems: Are we in a Post Reform Era?', Jerusalem.

(2004) 'Empty Shops, dying towns and the future of rural Australia', in refereed Proceedings of the 2004 TASA Conference (CD) Australian Sociological Association.

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