AMHS is now in its 60th year
2024 Lectures
2 May, 4July, 5 September, 7 November
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Lecture evenings are free, no bookings required, everyone interested in medical history and heritage welcome
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Ben Kingsbury
Tim Cundy
(Click on repsective lecture titles for details)
Special Interest Talk at 6.15 pm
Changing Representations of the Breast in History – from the Sacred to the Liberated
John Collins
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Meeting 14 March 2024
Click on heading above to see presentations (Photos JM)
From right: Poul Nielsen, Neil Anderson with Felicity Goodyear-Smith, Cris Print
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Click on recent publications to see other new publications
Jock Caughey: Physician and Humanitarian
Neil Anderson
2023 Mary Egan Publishing
The Best Country to GIve Birth?
Midwifery, Homebirth and the Politics of Maternity in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1970–2022,
Linda Bryder
2023 Auckland University Press
Click on respective book titles for details
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Thursday 2nd May 2-4pm
School of Humanities 206-253. All welcome
The joys of being a little human being: New Zealand's maternity services in historical perspective. Linda Bryder
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2023 Highlights
Thanks to all our presenters who contributed to a lively and very successful 2023 Lecture Series. We especially thank those who have contibuted to our Special Interest Talks.
Selected Archives (from 2021)
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Final meeting November 2023 (Photos JM)
Left: Cardiac pacing, William Bowman & Jerusalem: Ross Blair
Centre: The Founders' Lecture- Sir William Liley: Peter Stone
Right: Special Interest Talk- stories of heart valves: Alan Kerr
Meeting 7 September 2023 (All photos JM)
Left: David Black with Neil Anderson. Right George Foote
Centre: Some of the 76 people in the audience
Special interest talk: Thomas Moore Philson (presented by Iain Wakefield)
Below: Asst. Surgeon Thomas Philson's trunk, 58th Rutlandshire Regiment. (EMDL Collection)
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AMHS Medical History Prize Winners
2022 Danielle van Dalen
2023 Nadija Palinich
Click on Archives to read essays /see list of previous prize winners
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Medical Memorabilia-an intriguing library & museum
The EMDL collections
An intereview with Neil Anderson. Click on:
Ingenio Spring 2021 Alumni
Scroll down to p.32
(Courtesy University of Auckland)
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July 2023 Student presentations. (Photos JM)
Megan Kuan - History of the Anti- Vaccine Movement,
Claudia Hall - A History of Lobotomy
No subscription, meetings free. Instead we depend on donations to support the continuation of the Society.
Our thanks to those who support & continue to donate online or via a koha at meetings.
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A new Health Museum for Aotearoa New Zealand entirely in a digital space
See Our Health Journeys
2022 Visitors from Auckland Museum viewing some of the books in EMDL collection with Victoria Bell, EMDL librarian (centre) (Photo JM)
New Zealand WW1 Medical Practitioners
Collaborating with the Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph team, Dr Pat Clarkson has compiled a record of more than 500 New Zealand doctors who served in WW1.
NZ Doctors WW1 or Auckland Museum
Click on heading above, then search icon (screen top right)
enter NZ Doctors WW1
New Zealand WW1 Nurses
Auckland Hospital nurse Charlotte (Lottie) Le Gallais was one 10 nurses selected to serve on the first voyage of the New Zealand hospital ship Maheno in July 1915. Five hundred and fifty New Zealand registered nurses served overseas with the New Zealand Army Nursing Service (NZANS).
Click on Auckland Museum link, then on "Search" (top right screen) - enter "NZ Nurses WW1"
(Lottie Le Gallais - photo Auckland Museum Online Cenotaph)
WW1 New Zealand Medical Services (Photo National Library of NZ).
Below: Hospital ship Maheno with signatures of the New Zealand Medical Corps (NZMC) and nurses (NZANS) on board. (Photo EMDL collection)
WW1 Operating theatre No 1 NZ General Hospital, Brockenhurst. (Photo Auckland Museum file)
Above: WW1 NZ Dental Corp (Photo Auckland Museum file)
Below: Coats of Arms of universities and medical colleges. (EMDL collection. Photo JM)
80th Anniversary of Cornwall Hospital
(Photos JM): Heritage Day 24 February 2024 Commemorating Cornwall Hospital. Peter Stone & Judy Murphy. Below: a small group who were born at Cornwall Hospital)
The 39th General Hospital was built by Fletcher Construction for the US Army in Cornwall Park in 1943. In 1945 the 1000 bed/ 48 ward hospital was vacated by the Americans. The 123 pre-fabricated buildings were then taken over by the Auckland Hospital Board to establish Cornwall Hospital, the Obstetric & Gynaecological Unit (renamed National Women's Hospital in 1955) and the Cornwall Park Geriatric Hospital. Click on links to:
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History of Cornwall Park Hospital by James Newman
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39th US General Hospital, Auckland WW2. 2015 Dr Pat Clarkson
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Celebrating our past - a timeline of historical links with Cornwall Hospital
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The Yankee Hospital: the 39th General Army Hospital.
(Isabella Wensley, Auckland History Initiative.)
Cornwall Park c. 1943 (File photo)
Below: July 2023 James Newman Lecture. Bring Back the Cane presented by John Cullen. Photo with AMHS president Neil Anderson. (Photos JM)
Special Interest talk- with curator Juliet Hawkins, veiwing the contents of the c.1880 Homeopathic Medicine Chest (Photo JM)
