For archives pre 2021, please enquire via: secretary@amhs.co.nz.
SELECTED DOCUMENTS
University of Auckland Ingenio 2021 (Click on PDF, scroll down to p32)
History of Cornwall Park Hospital - James Newman
History of Green Lane Hospital - Basil Hutchinson
SELECTED INTERVIEWS
2018 RNZ Dr Douglas Jolly - interview with author Mark Derby
2019 RNZ Interview with Dame Margaret Sparrow
1996 RNZ Interview with Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes. Brian Edwards
2023 RNZ Interview with Joan Skinner -Midwifery in New Zealand
2023 RNZ Cotter Medical Museum - Interview with Paddy Cotter
2023 RNZ Interview with Professor Linda Bryder - The Best Country to Give Birth. * For more interviews & NZ Doctor review click on title link
2024 RNZ Interview with Sir Collin Tukuitonga
2024 RNZ Interview with Mark Derby - Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand Medical Pioneer Dr Jolly
LECTURES & SLIDES
Click on title of lecture to see slides. For abstracts and biographies see PROGRAME section
2023 March - Victor Horsley (David Abernethy)
2023 May - Selected issues in the Last 100 years of Psychiatry (Graham Mellsop)
2023 May -The King's Pneumonectomy (Tony Mark)
2023 July - Bring Back the Cane (John Cullen) slides awaited.
2023 July - The History of the Anti-Vaccine Movement (Megan Kuan)
2023 July - The History of Lobotomy (Claudia Hall)
2023 September The Medical History of Mobile Telephony; Slides (David Black)
2023 September- Advances radiology over 50 years. The impact on Diagnostic Pathways. (George Foote) - no slides used
2023 November -Cardiac Pacing, Sir William Bowman (1816-1892), and Jerusalem (Ross Blair)
2023 November - Sir William Liley (Peter Stone)
2024 March - From Crime to Care (Felicity Goodyear-Smith)
2024 March- At Breakneck Speed: the Remarkable History of Genomic Medicine Over the Last 30 Years (Cris Print)
2024 May - From Quail Island to Makogai: Leprosy sufferers and their treatment in New Zealand and the Pacific 1906-1940 (Ben Kingsbury) Transcript of talk
2024 May - The Story of Insulin (Tim Cundy)
2024 July Ageing Well in New Zealand: Highlights from Past, Present and Future Research (Ngaire Kerse)
2024 July Te Aka Whai Ora – historical perspective (Ted Richards)
2024 July How a parasite shaped human history (Megan McPherson)
2024 July America’s opioid crisis (Karan Govindpani)
AMHS MEDICAL HISTORY PRIZE WINNERS
Click on essay title to read, see also link to List of Prize Winners
2022 Danielle van Dalen Smallpox in 19th century New Zealand
2023 Nadija Palinich How and why did women’s experience of childbirth change in the course of the twentieth century? Do you think it was a positive or a negative change? * This was one of the essays for which Nadija won the prize. Nadija did another as well and achieved the top grade for the class overall.
MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS
2023 March
2023 May
2023 July
2023 September
2023 November
Bio graphical details and abstracts can be found in PROGRAMMES. (Many lectures were cancelled 2021-2022 due to Covid 19)
PRESENTERS
Click on date to read names of presenters