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MONDAY 28 SEPTEMBER |
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5.00-7.00pm |
Welcome Event: Medical Museum [free to conference
registrants] |
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TUESDAY 29 SEPTEMBER |
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7.00-9.00 |
Registration |
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9.00-9.30 |
Welcomes
Chairperson: Lenore Layman |
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9.30-10.30 |
Keynote Address
– Professor Paul Weindling, ‘Historicising Bioethics:
Informed Consent, Context and Physician-Patient Relations’
Chairperson: Peter Winterton |
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10.30-11.00 |
Morning Tea |
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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
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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 |
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12.30-1.30 |
Lunch |
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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
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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 |
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3.00-3.30 |
Afternoon Tea |
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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
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5.00-6.00 |
Peter Holland: performance of JJ
Holland's diary |
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6.00-7.00 |
Drinks & nibbles
Presentation of grant cheques to successful postgraduate
applicants |
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WEDNESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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11.00-11.30 |
Morning Tea |
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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
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12.30-1.00 |
Lunch
Opening of Warburton Art Exhibition by the Hon. Fred Chaney AO |
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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
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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 |
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3.00-4.00 |
Keynote Address
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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 |
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4.00-4.30 |
Afternoon Tea |
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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
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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 |
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5.30-6.30 |
ANZSHM AGM |
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CONFERENCE DINNER - Royal
Freshwater Bay Yacht Club [cost not included in conference
registration]
* after dinner talk Dr Barry Marshall |
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7.00 |
Bus departs UWA Club |
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7.15 |
Pre-dinner drinks |
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8.00 |
Dinner |
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THURSDAY 1 OCTOBER |
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8.00-11.00 |
SLATER & GORDON WITNESS SEMINAR
ASBESTOS-RELATED DISEASE |
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11.00-11.30 |
Morning Tea |
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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 |
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1.00-2.00 |
Lunch - with book launches |
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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
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3.30-4.00 |
Afternoon Tea |
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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?
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5.30-6.00 |
CLOSING SESSION
Closing discussion
& news of ANZSHM 2011 conference, Brisbane Queensland (Dr Sally
Wilde, convenor) |
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FRIDAY
2 OCTOBER |
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Post-conference day trip to the
nineteenth century Spanish Benedictine town of
New Norcia
[cost not included in conference registration] |