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Contributors
LINDA BRYDER is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Auckland. She has published widely on the history of tuberculosis, particularly in Britain, and more recently on the history of infant health and New Zealand's famous Plunket Society. She is currently working on the history of women's health, focusing on the history of National Women's Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand. She teaches courses on the social history of health and medicine in nineteenth and twentieth century Western societies, and is currently supervising eight PhDs in public health history.
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SIMON CHAPMAN is Professor in Public Health at the University of Sydney. His main research interests are in tobacco control, media discourses on health and illness, and risk communication. He has a PhD in sociology and wrote a dissertation on the semiotics of cigarette advertising. He has published widely within the field of public health.
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DEREK DOW was a hospital archivist in Glasgow for more than a decade. Based in Auckland since 1990, his publications include histories of the New Zealand Department of Health and of Maori health. His current research focuses upon the history of the medical profession in New Zealand prior to 1930.
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GREGORY HAINES is Head of the JCM Centre, St Ignatius' College Riverview, and an Honorary Fellow, the Australian Academy of Pharmacy History.
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MICHAEL HEALY recently graduated with a BA in History from the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. His exhibition review is the result of his work for the 2006 University of Waikato Summer Research Scholarship project 'Tokanui Hospital: The Written History of the Waikato Mental Health Services, 1910–2000,' under the supervision of Dr. Catharine Coleborne. Michael is currently traveling and working in Asia and looks forward to studying History and Museum Studies at graduate level and beyond.
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MEGAN HICKS is the commissioning producer of permanent galleries at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. Prior to this appointment she was the Museum's curator of health and medicine. Projects developed by Megan included the exhibitions Taking Precautions: The Story of Contraception and Works Wonders: Stories About Home Remedies, and the website The Rags: Paraphernalia of Menstruation. Her involvement with both professional and volunteer-managed health and medicine museums has led her to publish a number of articles on the role of such museums.
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PETER GRAEME HOBBINS is enrolled in a course for the Master of Medical Humanities at the University of Sydney. As an undergraduate at Melbourne University, he completed an Arts degree in English literature and the history and philosophy of science, plus a Science Honours degree in pharmacology, researching Australian snake venoms. Since then he has worked as a medical writer, returning to part-time postgraduate study in 2005. His main interests are in military medicine—particularly psychiatry—and in the history of toxinology. At the conclusion of his Master's degree, Peter hopes to undertake a PhD on the history of envenomation and venom research in Australia.
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CLAIRE HOOKER is a Senior Lecturer in the Medical Humanities at the University of Sydney. Her research investigates sociological and historical aspects of risk in health and health policy, raising questions from representations and understandings of risk among lay populations to the nature and use of evidence in formulating policy decisions.
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ASTRID JUDGE is a freelance book editor and writer, who works mainly on primary and secondary school textbooks. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and Diploma of Education from Melbourne University. She was a founding member of the Kew Cottages Coalition, a community group which opposed the dismantling of Kew Cottages, and sale of public land. Astrid lives in East Kew with her partner and two children.
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DAVID KILLINGRAY is Emeritus Professor of History at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He co-organised, with Howard Phillips, the International Conference on Spanish Influenza, at the University of Cape Town in 1998; together they edited The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19: New Perspectives (London: Routledge, 2003).
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LOUELLA McCARTHY completed her PhD on medical women in nineteenth–and twentieth-century Australia through the School of History, University of New South Wales, in 2001. She has continued to work on issues of gender and medicine in a comparative context. Her current appointment is as research associate with the Disability & Community Research Cluster, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, investigating the impact of values and beliefs on health care practices, with a specific focus on women with disabilities. She is the president of the New South Wales Society of the History of Medicine and a councillor for the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine.
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PROJIT BIHARI MUKHARJI is a Wellcome Fellow at the University of Southampton. He was awarded a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, in 2006 for his thesis entitled Medicine and Modernity in Colonial Bengal, c. 1775–1930. He is interested in the framing of indigenous medical traditions in colonial South Asia through their interactions with western medicine. In his forthcoming article "Going Beyond Elite Medical Traditions: The Case of Chandshi" in Asian Medicine, he explores the history of minor medical traditions in the Indian subcontinent.
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BERIS PENROSE is an independent scholar whose research focuses on labour history—particularly the history of occupational health and safety. His work on silicosis, occupational lead poisoning in miners, painters and battery manufacturing workers as well as occupational arsenic poisoning in sheep shearers has been published in journals such as Labour History, Journal of Industrial Relations, Labour & Industry, and Labour History Review (UK). He is also a contributor to the 'Spot of History' column in the Australian Workers' Union health and safety magazine, Say Safety.
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| SALLY WILDE is an ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland. She is the author of a number of books on aspects of Australia's social, economic and medical history, and is currently working on a project entitled Trust and the Changing Moral Economy of Australian Medicine. Her interests include the history of surgical ethics, patients' attitudes to medicine and the process of innovation in surgery. |
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