11th BIENNIAL CONFERENCE 2009
   Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine

28 September 2009
to
01 October 2009

Perth, Western Australia

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DRAFT PROGRAM AT 03 SEPTEMBER 2009 

 

MONDAY 28 SEPTEMBER
5.00-7.00pm Welcome Event: Medical Museum [free to conference registrants]
       
TUESDAY 29 SEPTEMBER
7.00-9.00 Registration    
9.00-9.30 Welcomes
Chairperson: Lenore Layman
   
9.30-10.30

Keynote Address  –  Professor Paul Weindling, ‘Historicising Bioethics: Informed Consent, Context and Physician-Patient Relations’
Chairperson: Peter Winterton

10.30-11.00 Morning Tea    

11.00-12.30

Concurrent Session 1
Theory, Research & Practice

Chairperson: Carol Piercey


1.1 Ross Jones, Anatomies of Empire: Race, Evolution, and Scientific Networks in the Twentieth-Century British World


1.2 Prue Deacon, Evidence-based medicine, arthritis therapy and patients


1.3 Linda Bryder, Frontiers of Medical Technology: the 'Pap' Smear Test and Cancer, 1950-1990

 

Concurrent Session 2
Mental Illness

Chairperson: Hans Pols


2.1 Ann Westmore, Not quite mad enough: Deciding about claims of insanity in the age of transportation, 1820s to 1840s

2.2 Dolly Mackinnon & Lee-Ann Monk, ‘The house is well & carefully kept’: Private asylums in Australia 1840-1930

2.3 Ann Hardy, Official Lunacy Policy and Frontier reality in Colonial New South Wales: Who was admitted to the Newcastle Asylum for Imbeciles?

Concurrent Session 3
Medical Associations & Training

Chairperson:Noel Cass

3.1 Julie Hooke, Attouda Medical School – Figment of Strabo’s Imagination or Research Frontier?

3.2 Peter Tyler, The Antipodean Frontier: Medical Science in Nineteenth-Century New South Wales

3.3 Derek Dow, Australian applicants preferred? The late nineteenth century New Zealand house surgeon

12.30-1.30 Lunch    

1.30-3.00

Concurrent Session 4
Research & Treatments

Chairperson: Prue Deacon

4.1 Stephen Due, The guaiacum test for blood: an early Australian contribution to medical science

4.2 Roger Wilkinson, Pathways to Nowhere: The History of the Surgery for Coronary Artery Disease 1930-1965

4.3 Peter Hobbins, Snakes and the state: venom research at the frontier of federal funding for medical science

 

Concurrent Session 5
Nurses and Midwifes in the Third Reich

Chairperson: Judith Godden

5.1 Louella McCarthy, Between the Ideal and a Living: women in private medical practice, NSW 1890-1939

5.2 Linda Shields, Caring by killing: the children's "euthanasia" programmes of the Third Reich

5.3 Emily Wilson, Australian medical professionals and homosexuality, 1970-1985

Concurrent Session 6
Medical care on geographic frontiers

Chairperson: Anthea Hyslop

6.1 Hugo Ree, Policing Public Health in Queensland

6.2 Cathie Clement, Adverse reactions: Doctors on the Kimberley frontier

6.3 Alice Nicholls, Intensive care in Australia’s Northern Territory – medicine’s frontier, at the frontier

3.00-3.30 Afternoon Tea    

3.30-5.00

Concurrent Session 7
Hypnotism & Mesmerism

Chairperson: Noel Cass

7.1 Elizabeth Todd, Mesmeric Anaesthesia: An Infirmary in London and a lone ranger in Australia

7.2 Kim Hajek, The shadow of magnétisme: Marking hypnotism’s scientific boundaries in fin-de-siècle France

7.3 Heather Wolffram, Legitimizing Medical Hypnosis in Imperial Germany: A Two-Front War

Concurrent Session 8
Infectious Diseases

Chairperson: Anthony Radford

8.1 Peter Stride, Medical controversies on St Kilda

8.2 Hugh Jones, Papua New Guinea: Malaria, New Guineans and Europeans in the nineteenth century

8.3 John Stuart, Historical aspects of Protozoal and Helminth infections in the Aboriginal population of Australia

Concurrent Session 9
Medical biographies

Chairperson: Peter Tyler

9.1 George Biro, Renaissance Europe rejected both the Physiology and Theology of Michael Servetus

9.2 Gwen Chessell, Dr Alexander Collie and his medical world

9.3 Paul Lancaster, Herbert Michael Moran: bridging the two cultures
 

5.00-6.00 Peter Holland: performance of JJ Holland's diary
6.00-7.00 Drinks & nibbles
Presentation of grant cheques to successful postgraduate applicants
       
WEDNESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER

8.30-10.00

Concurrent Session 10
Indigenous Health

Chairperson: Barbara Brookes
 

10.1 Katrina Ford, ‘A menace to the wellbeing of the European’; Maori, germs, and public health in New Zealand, 1900-1914
 

10.2 Mary Anne Jebb, The Lock Hospitals as a moral frontier
 

10.3 Philippa Martyr, Behaving Wildly: Psychiatric diagnoses of Indigenous Western Australians, 1870-1908
 

Concurrent Session 11
Infectious Disease: The Spanish Flu

Chairperson: Peter Hobbins
 

11.1 Anthea Hyslop, Order amid chaos? Crisis management during the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 in Australia
 

11.2 Tom Gara, ‘They died like flies’ - Spanish Influenza and its impact on Aboriginal people in South Australia, 1919
 

11.3 Corry Donovan, The 1918-19 Flu Pandemic in WA

Concurrent Session 12
Medical history in Asia: new frontiers and old

Chairperson: Robert Cribb
 

12.1 Hans Pols, Medicine without Doctors: Domestic Medicine at the Colonial Frontier of the Dutch East Indies, 1800-1942
 

12.2 Vivek Neelakantan, Visions of Health in Twentieth Century Indonesia
 

12.3 Xiaoping Fang, From Home Bedsides to Hospital Wards: Barefoot Doctors and the Evolution of the Curative Medicine Network in Chinese Villages, 1968-1985

10.00-11.00

Keynote Address - Professor Gordon Briscoe, ‘Aboriginal health and liberty for all': the paradox of Aboriginal health, social interference and moral judgement’

Chairperson: Max Kamien

11.00-11.30 Morning Tea    

11.30-1.00

Concurrent Session 13
Aboriginal Health

Chairperson: John Stuart
 

13.1 John Whitehall, W. E Roth, Northern Protector of Aboriginals
 

13.2 Anna Haebich, Assimilation and health in Nyungar Country
 

13.3 John Boulton [presenter] Gaynor Macdonald, Lessons from History: the treatment of leprosy in the Kimberley informs present day diabetes care

Concurrent Session 14
Numismatics, Philatelics & Health Collectables

Chairperson: Walter Bloom

14.1 Walter Bloom, The Women’s League of Health and the AMOR Badge Company

14.2 John Pearn, The Medical Medals of Western Australia

Concurrent Session 15
Medical history in Asia: new frontiers and old

Chairperson: Sandra Wilson

15.1 Robert Cribb, The first orangutans: were they human after all?
 

15.2 Beatrice Trefalt, Quarantine and eugenics in early post-war Japan: repatriate women, abortions and national identity, 1946-1947
 

15.3 Dean Asko, Surviving the Pacific War: Failure to Provide Adequate Healthcare as a War Crime

1.00-2.00
including
12.30-1.00
Lunch

Opening of Warburton Art Exhibition by the Hon. Fred Chaney AO

2.00-3.00

Concurrent Session 16
Aboriginal Health: Lessons from History

Chairperson: Anthea Hyslop
 

16.1 Bill Grayden & John Quintner, It’s Snowing On the Warburton Ranges
 

16.2 John Boulton [presenter], Rachel Burgess, Gaynor Macdonald, & Andrew Watts, When demography is destiny: the historical base of pronatalism in contemporary Indigenous society

Concurrent Session 17
Numismatics, Philatelics & Health Collectables

Chairperson: Peter Winterton
 

17.1 Philip Kennedy, Caracalla – A Quest for Healing
 

17.2 Donald Simpson, Anson’s Voyage and the Lima Coinage: A Study in Eighteenth Century Publicity
 

Concurrent Session 18
Maritime Health

Chairperson: Max Kamien
 

18.1 John Hayman, Darwin’s Illness Diagnosed (yet again)
 

18.2 John Pearn, The Doctor-Naturalist in Australian Exploration – Hermann Diedrich Spöring (1733-1771) and his legacy

3.00-4.00

Keynote Address  –  Dr Carol Piercey “Are you going to the Sani?” The history of the Western Australian government nurse trainees at Wooroloo Sanatorium, 1915-1947.
Chairperson: Linda Shields

4.00-4.30 Afternoon Tea

4.30-5.30

Concurrent Session 19
Change in Nursing History

Chairperson: Linda Shields
 

19.1 Judith Godden, ‘Just a subversive element’: Gwen Burbidge, the Nursing Shortage and Generational Change in Nursing
 

19.2 Kate Prebble, Other people’s dirty work: The success or failure of a New Zealand assisted immigration scheme for mental hospital nurses

Concurrent Session 20
Numismatics, Philatelics & Health Collectables

Chairperson: John Pearn
 

20.1 Mervyn Cobcroft, Aeromedical philately - a personal journey
 

20.2 Rob Pearce, Medical Scientists on Banknotes
 

Concurrent Session 21
Philanthropy

Chairperson: Philippa Martyr

21.1 Charmaine Robson, “Have you a martyr-priest or another Father Damien in the Province?” Catholic Male Missionaries at Work in Twentieth Century Australian Leprosaria.
 

21.2 Juan Carlos García Reyes, Technologies for times of war: The Red Cross in the Universal Exhibition for the period 1867-1873

5.30-6.30 ANZSHM AGM
  CONFERENCE DINNER - Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club [cost not included in conference registration]
* after dinner talk Dr Barry Marshall
7.00 Bus departs UWA Club    
7.15 Pre-dinner drinks    
8.00 Dinner    
 
THURSDAY 1 OCTOBER
8.00-11.00 SLATER & GORDON WITNESS SEMINAR
ASBESTOS-RELATED DISEASE
11.00-11.30 Morning Tea

11.30-1.00

Concurrent Session 22
Occupational Health

Chairperson: Lee-Ann Monk
 

22.1 Cecily Hunter, Perceiving a threat to workers’ health in ‘ordinary conditions of work’: Responses to asbestos disease in the Victorian power generating industry 1950-1979
 

22.2 Criena Fitzgerald, Magic Bullet or Snake Oil? Aluminium dust and the prevention of silicosis in Western Australia, 1948-1963
 

22.3 Bobbie Oliver, Initiation ceremonies in the workplace: a harmless right of passage or a serious risk to health and safety?

Concurrent Session 23
Discourses, Paradigms and Performance
Chairperson: Paul Sendziuk
 

23.1 Barbara Brookes, Performing Medicine: Anna Longshore Potts on stage in New Zealand and Australia in the 1880s
 

23.2 Joanne Richdale, Doctors and the Making of an Abortion Crisis in New Zealand, 1921–1936
 

23.3 Matthew Allen, From sin to risk: a brief history of the changing paradigms for understanding alcohol and health in Australia

Concurrent Session 24
Medical Education

Chairperson: Louella McCarthy
 

24.1 Anthony Radford, Northward Ho! An Oral History of the Role that Experience In Papua & New Guinea played in the Development of Departments of General Practice & Public Health In Australian Medical Schools
 

24.2 Ann Dettrick, Nineteenth Century Medicine in Gippsland 1845-1899
 

24.3 Max Kamien, Educating rurally based student health professionals about medical history: The example of William Theodore Hodge (1859-1934) MRCS, LSA, DPH of British Guiana, Claremont, Kellerberrin and Derby

1.00-2.00 Lunch - with book launches

2.00-3.30

Concurrent Session 25
Meaning in objects

Chairperson: Robert Pearce
 

25.1 Pip McNaught, Faith and the Faithfulls: Family history in a medicine chest
 

25.2 Jim Nixon, Lamps in Health and Medicine with examples from The Marks Museum of Medical History
 

25.3 Alice Nicholls, ‘Show & Tell’: A mini-patient for children

Concurrent Session 26
Policy and practice
Chairperson: Kate Prebble
 

26.1 Philippa Martyr, The Strange Case of Matron Shawcross: an episode in Western Australian mental health history
 

26.2 Deborah Dunsford, Closing the book on tuberculosis: New Zealand’s post-World War II public health campaign
 

26.3 Deborah Jowitt, ‘A deadly threat to our very future as a nation’: the impact of AIDS on the development of hepatitis B policy in New Zealand in the 1980s

Concurrent Session 27
Child Health

Chairperson: John Pearn
 

27.1 Des Gurry, Princess Margaret Hospital’s Centenary
 

27.2 Jackie Scurlock, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children – the Second half of the Century
 

27.3 Peter Winterton, Child Protection: the response of the Children’s Hospital in Perth over the last half century
 

3.30-4.00 Afternoon Tea

4.00-5.30

Concurrent Session 28
Medical Biography

Chairperson: Derek Dow
 

28.1 Robert Cooter, Dr Phoebe Chapple (1879-1967) MM BSc 1998 MB BS 1904
 

28.2 Donald Beard, Henry Simpson Newland, surgeon
 

25.3 Brenda Heagney & Nicholas Young, The Life of Ryley

Concurrent Session 29
Public Health & Education

Chairperson: To be advised
 

29.1 Marianna Stylianou, ‘It is one thing for Chairman Mao… quite another for us’: Heath Education during the Cold War era
 

29.2 Courtney Harper, ‘No laughing matter’: the problem of fat middle-aged men in post-war New Zealand dietary advice
 

26.3 Paul Sendziuk, Crossed Legs and Crossed Fingers: Sex Education in the Age of AIDS

Concurrent Session 30
Maternal & Child Health

Chairperson: Linda Bryder
 

30.1 Linda Shields, Julie Jomeen & Nicholas Bennett, Matthew Flinders Senior: Surgeon and “Man Midwife”
 

30.2 Madonna Grehan, ‘want of skilled attention’: what maternal death inquests tell us about nineteenth century childbirth attendance by women
 

30.3 Neville Hills, Martha Rendell: Murderer or alternative medicine gone horribly wrong?
 

5.30-6.00 CLOSING SESSION
Closing discussion
& news of ANZSHM 2011 conference, Brisbane Queensland (Dr Sally Wilde, convenor)
       
FRIDAY 2 OCTOBER
Post-conference day trip to the nineteenth century Spanish Benedictine town of New Norcia [cost not included in conference registration]

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