Elizabeth McCardell
Elizabeth is Tutor, in Self, Sustainability & Society, ISTP, Murdoch University.
She contributed a paper to the first Murdoch Talk-in-Interaction Symposium; a paper to the Critical Psychology Conference; two papers to the Health & Ageing Conference, and one paper to a Chinese Medicine Conference in Nanjing. All papers explored the processes of interaction in situations and neurological disorders when talking becomes difficult.
Elizabeth is currently converting her doctoral dissertation into a book, writing book reviews for Metapsychology and The Human Nature Review, co-authoring a book on the senses (specifically touch) with Michael Booth, and writing journal articles. She has contributed articles to the Routledge Encyclopaedia of 19th Century Thought (on 'Body, Health, Disease and Medicine'); and to the Thoemmes Dictionary of 19th Century British Scientists (on James Mill and Alfred Marshall).
Elizabeth's PhD (Murdoch 2001) dissertation is: Catching the Ball: Constructing the Reciprocity of Embodiment. This used many techniques of ethnomethodological research as it tried to trace the relationships of body-self to social and physical milieux. The dissertation was critical of the way in which many clinical assessment techniques used to examine patients with neurological disorders fail to take account of coping on a simple non-cognitive plane (e.g., making tea) remains possible for people with Alzheimers when they cannot answer questions like, 'Who is the prime minister of Australia?'.