2025 LECTURES
5 March, 7 May, 2 July, 3 September, 5 November
2024 HIGHLIGHTS
(Click on headings)
Meetings
See 2024 Programme for abstracts and biographies
Meeting 7 November 2024
The Plan is the Plan. Failure is not an option
Sir Ashley Bloomfield
Meeting 5 September 2024
Farewell presentation for
Juliet Hawkins, long time Curator of the EMDL - Juliet with Neil Anderson
From left: Rod Ellis Pegler (Photo C Ducobu), Brian McAvoy
From left: Ricky Shen, Nadia Turner. A record ~100 attendees (Photo C Ducubo)
Meeting 4 July 2024
From top left: Neil Anderson with presenters - Ngaire Kerse, Ted Richards, Megan McPherson, Karan Govindpani, Jessica Parr
Meeting 2 May 2024
John Collins; Neil Anderson with Ben Kingsbury; Neil Anderson with Tim Cundy
Meeting 14 March 2024
From left: Poul Nielsen, Neil Anderson with Felicity Goodyear-Smith, Cris Print
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Recent books
Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand Medical Pioneer Douglas Jolly. Mark Derby
(2024 Massey University Press)
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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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
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 names 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)
MAILING LIST
Join our mailing list to hear about meetings
Email your contact details to: AMHS Secretary
July 2023 Student presentations. (Photos JM)
Megan Kuan - History of the Anti- Vaccine Movement,
Claudia Hall - A History of Lobotomy
DONATIONS
Meetings are free but we depend on donations to support the Society. Click on donations to see how to donate. Online donations preferred.
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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; 550 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"
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From left: Lottie Le Gallais (Auckland Museum Online Cenotaph); New Zealand Medical Services (National Library): : WW1 Operating Theatre, 1 NZ General Hospital, Brockenhurst (Auckland Museum); NZANS -10 nurses drowned on torpedoed ship Marquette 1915 along with 22 other NZrs. (Auckland Museum Hall of Memories - JM) Corp (Auckland Museum); 2 NZ General Hospital, Walton on Thames. (file photo): Nurses drowned on the Marquette. (RNZ file)
Below: Hospital ship Maheno with signatures of the New Zealand Medical Corps (NZMC) and nurses (NZANS) on board. (Photo EMDL collection)
Coats of Arms presented to the EMDL (Universities & Medical Colleges). EMDL collection
Stories from graduates 1896-1967
Centre: Emily Hancock Seidberg-McKinnon (1872-1968), first woman medical graduate from New Zealand (1896) followed by Margaret Cruikshank (1897)-statue at Waimate errected 1922
To read the stories of >130 remarkable women, click on heading above. (Photos courtesy Early Medical Women of NZ website) * Enquiries or more infomation contact: c.farquhar@auckland.ac.nz
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)
