Biography
Christopher Mayes is a Senior Research Fellow in the Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences.
He is an interdisciplinary scholar with disciplinary backgrounds in sociology, history and philosophy. His research interests include history and philosophy of healthcare, sociology of health and food, and bioethics.
He is the author of two books. The Biopolitics of Lifestyle: Foucault, Ethics, and Healthy Choices (Routledge, 2016), which critically explores the use of lifestyle rhetoric and policies to govern individual choice and secure population health from the threat of obesity. Unsettling Food Politics: agriculture, dispossession, and sovereignty in Australia (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018), examines contemporary political and ethical discourses of food and agriculture in Australia.
Chris is currently developing a book manuscript based on his research on the history of bioethics in Australia. In 2017, he received a Discovery Early Career Research Award from the Australian Research Council to research the social history of bioethics in Australia. Bioethics in the Antipodes: a history of Australian bioethics since 1980 (DE170100550). This project aims to provide a comprehensive account of bioethics in Australia and uses archival sources, interviews, and theoretical analysis. The project seeks to advance understanding about the distinctive local and global contributions of Australian bioethics to regulatory frameworks, legal reform, and public discourse.
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Christopher joined Deakin in 2017, having previous held research fellowships at the Rock Ethics Institute (Pennsylvania State University) and Sydney Health Ethics (University of Sydney).
Affiliations
The Australian Sociological Association
Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy
Australasian Association for Bioethics and Health Law
Society for Social Studies of Science
Publications
Healthy Eating Policy: Racial Liberalism, Global Connections and Contested Science
C Mayes
(2023), Vol. 8, pp. 1-, Food Ethics, Switzerland, C1
Race and place-making in the rural Global North
V Stead, R Butler, C Mayes
(2023), Vol. 97, pp. 1-8, Journal of Rural Studies, C1
Going the Distance: Ethics of Space and Location on Accessing Reproductive Services in Australia
A Sassano, C Mayes, I Kerridge, W Lipworth
(2023), pp. 1-11, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Berlin, Germany, C1
C Mayes
(2022), Vol. 19, pp. 79-84, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Netherlands, C1
Christopher Mayes
(2022), Vol. 00, pp. 1-24, Social History of Medicine, Oxford, Eng., C1
Christopher Mayes, Elsher Lawson-Boyd, Maurizio Meloni
(2022), Vol. 14, pp. 1-12, Nutrients, Basel, Switzerland, C1
A Sassano, C Mayes, Y Paradies
(2022), pp. 1-14, Urban Policy and Research, London, Eng., C1
Race, Reproduction, and Biopolitics: A Review Essay
C Mayes
(2021), Vol. 18, pp. 99-107, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Netherlands, C1
Q Grundy, C Mayes, K Holloway, S Mazzarello, B Thombs, L Bero
(2020), Vol. 120, pp. 1-7, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1
C Mayes
(2020), Vol. 41, pp. 42-59, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1
After Conflicts of Interest: From Procedural Short-Cut to Ethico-Political Debate
C Mayes
(2020), Vol. 17, pp. 245-255, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Berlin, Germany, C1
White Medicine, White Ethics: On the Historical Formation of Racism in Australian Healthcare
Christopher Mayes
(2020), Vol. 44, pp. 287-302, Journal of Australian Studies, London, Eng., C1
Conflicts of interest in Australia's IVF industry: an empirical analysis and call for action
B Blakely, J Williams, C Mayes, I Kerridge, W Lipworth
(2019), Vol. 22, pp. 230-237, Human fertility, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1
Unsettling food politics: agriculture, dispossession and sovereignty in Australia
Christopher Mayes
(2018), London, Eng., A1
Conflicted hope: social egg freezing and clinical conflicts of interest
C Mayes, J Williams, W Lipworth
(2018), Vol. 27, pp. 45-59, Health sociology review, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Scientism, conflicts of interest, and the marginalization of ethics in medical education
C Mayes, J Williams, I Kerridge, W Lipworth
(2018), Vol. 24, pp. 939-944, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, England, C1
Fiscal policy to improve diets and prevent noncommunicable diseases: from recommendations to action
A Thow, S Downs, C Mayes, H Trevena, T Waqanivalu, J Cawley
(2018), Vol. 96, pp. 201-210, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, C1
Q Grundy, R Habibi, A Shnier, C Mayes, W Lipworth
(2018), Vol. 122, pp. 509-518, Health Policy, Ireland, C1
A code of ethics for social marketing? Bridging procedural ethics and ethics-in-practice
S Carter, C Mayes, L Eagle, S Dahl
(2017), Vol. 29, pp. 20-38, Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing, Philadelphia, Pa., C1
Conflicts of interest in medicine: taking diversity seriously
J Williams, C Mayes, P Komesaroff, I Kerridge, W Lipworth
(2017), Vol. 47, pp. 739-746, Internal Medicine Journal, Australia, C1-1
Debates about conflict of interest in medicine: deconstructing a divided discourse
Serena Purdy, Miles Little, Christopher Mayes, Wendy Lipworth
(2017), Vol. 14, pp. 135-149, Journal of bioethical inquiry, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, C1-1
Should disclosure of conflicts of interest in medicine be made public? Medical students' views
J Williams, W Lipworth, C Mayes, I Olver, I Kerridge
(2017), Vol. 51, pp. 1232-1240, Medical Education, England, C1-1
Q Grundy, L Tierney, C Mayes, W Lipworth
(2017), Vol. 14, pp. 541-553, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Netherlands, C1-1
Food at the nexus of bioethics and biopolitics
C Mayes
(2016), pp. 167-177, Routledge handbook of food ethics, Abingdon, Eng., B1
C Mayes, W Lipworth, I Kerridge
(2016), Vol. 19, pp. 455-462, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, Netherlands, C1-1
Conflicts of interest in neoliberal times: perspectives of Australian medical students
C Mayes, I Kerridge, R Habibi, W Lipworth
(2016), Vol. 25, pp. 256-271, Health sociology review, Abingdon, Eng., C1
C Mayes, B Blakely, I Kerridge, P Komesaroff, I Olver, W Lipworth
(2016), Vol. 37, pp. 97-111, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Netherlands, C1-1
The biopolitics of lifestyle: Foucault, ethics and healthy choices
C Mayes
(2015), Abingdon, Eng., A1
What should we eat? Biopolitics, ethics, and nutritional scientism
C Mayes, D Thompson
(2015), Vol. 12, pp. 587-599, Journal of bioethical inquiry, Berlin, Germany, C1
The political and ethical challenge of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis
C Degeling, C Mayes, W Lipworth, I Kerridge, R Upshur
(2015), Vol. 12, pp. 107-113, Journal of bioethical inquiry, Berlin, Germany, C1
C Mayes
(2015), Vol. 10, pp. 841-855, Philosophy compass, Chichester, Eng., C1-1
C Degeling, J Johnson, C Mayes
(2015), Vol. 15, pp. 43-45, American journal of bioethics, Abingdon, Eng., C1
The harm of bioethics: a critique of Singer and Callahan on obesity
C Mayes
(2015), Vol. 29, pp. 217-221, Bioethics, Chichester, Eng., C1-1
Medicalization of eating and feeding
C Mayes
(2014), pp. 1-8, Encyclopedia of food and agricultural ethics, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, B1-1
Medicalization of Eating and Feeding
Christopher Mayes
(2014), pp. 1371-1378, Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, B1-1
C Mayes
(2014), Vol. 12, pp. 376-395, Social theory & health, Basingstoke, Eng., C1
Don't be scared, be angry: the politics and ethics of Ebola
L Hooker, C Mayes, C Degeling, G Gilbert, I Kerridge
(2014), Vol. 201, pp. 352-354, Medical journal of Australia, Sydney, N.S.W., C1
An agrarian imaginary in urban life: cultivating virtues and vices through a conflicted history
C Mayes
(2014), Vol. 27, pp. 265-286, Journal of agricultural and environmental ethics, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, C1
C Mayes, D Thompson
(2014), Vol. 7, pp. 158-169, Public health ethics, Oxford, Eng., C1-1
Pastoral power and the confessing subject in patient-centred communication
C Mayes
(2009), Vol. 6, pp. 483-493, Journal of bioethical inquiry, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, C1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Australian Competitive Grants
Bioethics in the Antipodes: a history of Australian bioethics since 1980
Dr Christopher Mayes
ARC DECRA - Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
- 2019: $127,049
- 2018: $124,937
- 2017: $126,266
Addressing Commercial Influences on Assisted Reproductive Technology
Dr Wendy Lipworth, A/Prof Ian Kerridge, Prof William Ledger, Prof Robert Norman, A/Prof Ainsley Newson, Prof Cameron Stewart, Prof Isabel Karpin, Prof Catherine Mills, Prof Catherine Waldby, Dr Christopher Mayes
NHMRC - Ideas Grant
- 2020: $46,770
Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Agriculture: Social and ethical issues
A/Prof Robert Sparrow, Dr Christopher Degeling, Dr Christopher Mayes
ARC - Discovery Projects
- 2023: $7,905
- 2022: $42,243
Supervisions
Bhanuraj Kashyap
Thesis entitled: Levinas and Singer: A Dialogue on Reasons, Suffering and Compassion
Master of Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences