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Abstracts

Abstracts are in alphabetical order by presenter​

GLAM Session Abstracts - Friday 11th July

Catherine Storey, Rebecca Lush, Elizabeth Milford, Helen Laffin & Jacqueline Healy

Vidhyasai Annem

​Bacteriology in Bombay: The Laboratory as Nexus for Social and Scientific Life

Clare F. Ashton

​The emotional lives of children during the Great War, clues from Mary Truby King's papers

 

Samantha Baker

​From Fascinated Victims to Disease Vectors .The role of sex worker activism in the creation of public health policy for the prevention of HIV

Philippa Barr

​Emotional epidemiology: Using disease histories to reconsider pathogen avoidance theory

 

Michelle Blake

​Abortion Stories: the value of historical stories hidden in the archives

Shayne Brown

Through Our Eyes: The History of Orthoptics in Australia, 1960-1991

Linda Bryder

Making History: drawing on a personal archive to understand developments in neonatal care in late twentieth-century New Zealand

 

Roslyn Burge

​Callan Park: The spaces of silence

 

Cassandra Byrnes

​The Role of the Physician in Historical Reproductive Coercion

 

Diana Carmody

Almoner to Social Worker: Alms to Action

John Carmody

The 1925 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine

Sandra Dash

​“Absconded”, “Useless” and “Most Unsatisfactory”: Trainee Nurse Attrition in North Queensland C. 1950s To 1970s

Mark Dawson

​Surgical semantics: the inoculation of smallpox in early eighteenth-century Britain.*

 

Veronica Dominiak

​Contemporary collecting and Covid-19

Paige Donaghy

Exploring The History of Birth Trauma and Obstetric Violence in British Medicine, 1690–1890

Peter Dowling

​Sister Edith Moore’s War – A Reconstructed History

Alison Downham Moore

Nineteenth-century French hygiene and the global origins of individual preventative health

Brian Draper

​The development of old age mental health and dementia services in Australia since 1975

Jacinthe Flore

​Sketching a cultural history of the vagus nerve

 

Denis Gojak

​Sydney’s 1820 influenza outbreak – a detailed analysis of its impact on settler and indigenous populations

Samantha Kohl Grey

“I am afraid you have yourself to blame”: Psychology, gynaecology and the deferment of blame in mid-twentieth century Australian medicine

 

Marta Hanson

​Knowing Hands: Thinking With the Mind in Hand in Late Imperial Chinese Medicine

 

Elizabeth Harford

​The making of an Ambulance Service in Sydney from its inception to 1960 

Jacqueline Healy

​Pestilence and Plague: From the Spanish flu to COVID-19 

 

Eureka Henrich

​Good Neighbours and Good Doctors: volunteers and migrant health in the 1950s and 1960s

 

Susan Heydon

​New Zealanders, vaccination and health history in the making

 

Margaret Horsburgh

Our Health Journeys - the e-museum of medical history

Tsung-Jen Hung

​Jamu’s circulation to Taiwan: Dis-chantment, re-chantment and the fetish of medical terms

 

Kathryn Irving, Lee-Ann Monk & Ross Jones

​Legacies of Eugenics in Australia: a roundtable 

 

James Isbister

​Warmth, Milk, Bonding and Hygiene: How an Australian Paediatrician Shaped Neonatal Care in the 1950s 

 

Diana Jefferies

​Unfolding Narratives: Creating short films for nursing education that demonstrate current best practice for future historical analysis

 

Effie Karageorgos

​Aftercare and the Second World War soldier: maintaining the masculinity of military men in the Trelowarren Rehabilitation Base, 1949-1970

David Kaufman

​Sir James Barrett , his enormous influence in medicine and academia

Jayne Krisjanous

Did the successes of ‘quack’ medicine marketing in New Zealand influence the fate of Māori tohunga at the turn of the 20th century?​

 

Helen Laffin & Elizabeth Milford

​Surgical History Interpreted

 

Peter Lewis

​Nurses who completed the Mental Retardation Certificate in New South Wales 1969 - 1985

 

Sarah Luke  

​A pretty good deal? Analysing the burials at Gladesville Hospital Cemetery (1880 to 1903)

 

Rebecca Lush

​100 Years of Collecting

 

Janie Mason

​Re-Interpreting the civilian nurse role in Darwin’s first bombing raids 1942  - Sister Eileen Mary Neenan MBE

Marilyn McMurchie

​What is the role of the clinical record in the history of medicine?

 

Jennifer Munday

Recording what happened: medical history no longer on site

Christopher Orrell

​Medicine in the Colonies: Searching for the emergence of local cultures of medicine in the nineteenth century Australian colonies through digital analysis of medical journals, 1856-1900

 

Jessica Parr

Heart disease epidemiology and obesity in Aotearoa New Zealand 

Neil Pollock

The Medical Contributions of Louis Pasteur

Hans Pols

Medicine without Physicians: Do-It-Yourself Doctoring in the Dutch East Indies

Ann-Marie Quinn

​Public virtue, private ambition: The quiet rise of entrepreneurial women in New Zealand’s private hospitals 1900 - 1935 

Hugo Ree

Islands of Segregation, c. 1870-1907.  A comparative socio political study of Queensland and British Columbia (Canada)

 

Ian Roberts-Thomson

Showcasing the history of medicine​

Emily Rose

Resisting the System: Counter-Narratives in the Australian Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement, 1970-1990

 

Gabrielle Rutter

​“They all evince a desire to go home when they get to the Melbourne Hospital”: The admission and discharge of Indigenous people to and from the Melbourne Hospital during the mid to late 19th century

 

Rebecca Sachse

​Graeco-Roman fertility understandings of 'compatible coupling' and its misuse in 21st-century debates on women's reproductive rights

 

Gemma Lucy Smart

Big Feelings as Methodological Justice: Addressing Epistemic Inequities in Medical Oral Histories

Natalie Smith

​Medical advertising in 1970s Australia: an exploration of the MD Australia journal

Catherine Storey

Using an anniversary of the 1919 pandemic to ’sell’ History of Medicine to Physicians

 

Meredith Temple-Smith

Making Health History Downunder – The Role of Anatomy  

 

C. Michele Thompson

​The Tuệ Tĩnh Ðường Medical Clinic and Contemporary Engaged Buddhism in Vietnam

 

Nadeem Toodayan

Harvey Cushing’s Life of Sir William Osler: 1925-2025

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Ann Westmore

​Advances in bacteriology amid oceans of lung complaints: The persistence of ideas about the restorative power of sea voyages and fresh air

 

Kath Weston

​Drainage and disease in Australia’s colonial prison system

Kath Weston

Animalia – the critical importance of animals in medical history

 

Neil Westphalen

​The Royal Australian Navy (RAN)’s role in advancing the nation’s interests requires a range of supporting elements ashore and afloat

Richard Trathen White

​How favourably or unfavourably were the psychiatrists of New South Wales regarded by their medical colleagues circa 1900?

 

Roger Wilkinson

The search for Isabella

Ian Willis

Camden Cottage Hospital, the early days of a New South Wales rural hospital, 1899-1902

Peter Winterton

London Calling 

Neville Yeomans

​Homeopathy in Colonial Australia: Homœopathic Hospitals and the Battle with Allopathy

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