Claire Hooker is Senior Lecturer and Coordinator, Health and Medical Humanities, University of Sydney. She was a lecturer in history and philosophy of science after my PhD and then did a postdoc in public health. She researches individual, public and stakeholder perceptions of and reactions to health risks, in particular disease risks (e.g. pandemic influenza, hospital acquired infection), and specialise in risk communication. She researches areas pertaining to the experiences of patients and health care workers: the nature of dignity, its compromising in health care, the nature of medical consultation and communication, the existential qualities of illness, understanding uncertainty and limits of evidence in medicine and health care, choices and decisions around complementary and alternative medicine, spirituality and health. Finally she conducts research in arts and health - the use of creative methodologies, arts based health promotion and medical education, the ethics of art and literature.