Abstracts

Abstracts are in alphabetical order by presenter

GLAM Session Abstracts - Friday 11th July

Catherine Storey, Rebecca Lush, Elizabeth Milford, Helen Laffin & Jacqueline Healy

Vidhyasai Annem

Bacteriology in Bombay: The Laboratory as Nexus for Social and Scientific Life

Clare F. Ashton

The emotional lives of children during the Great War, clues from Mary Truby King's papers

Samantha Baker

From Fascinated Victims to Disease Vectors .The role of sex worker activism in the creation of public health policy for the prevention of HIV

Philippa Barr

Emotional epidemiology: Using disease histories to reconsider pathogen avoidance theory

Michelle Blake

Abortion Stories: the value of historical stories hidden in the archives

Shayne Brown

Through Our Eyes: The History of Orthoptics in Australia, 1960-1991

Linda Bryder

Making History: drawing on a personal archive to understand developments in neonatal care in late twentieth-century New Zealand

Roslyn Burge

Callan Park: The spaces of silence

Cassandra Byrnes

The Role of the Physician in Historical Reproductive Coercion

Diana Carmody

Almoner to Social Worker: Alms to Action

John Carmody

The 1925 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine

Sandra Dash

“Absconded”, “Useless” and “Most Unsatisfactory”: Trainee Nurse Attrition in North Queensland C. 1950s To 1970s

Mark Dawson

Surgical semantics: the inoculation of smallpox in early eighteenth-century Britain.*

Veronica Dominiak

Contemporary collecting and Covid-19

Paige Donaghy

Exploring The History of Birth Trauma and Obstetric Violence in British Medicine, 1690–1890

Peter Dowling

Sister Edith Moore’s War – A Reconstructed History

Alison Downham Moore

Nineteenth-century French hygiene and the global origins of individual preventative health

Brian Draper

The development of old age mental health and dementia services in Australia since 1975

Jacinthe Flore

Sketching a cultural history of the vagus nerve

Denis Gojak

Sydney’s 1820 influenza outbreak – a detailed analysis of its impact on settler and indigenous populations

Samantha Kohl Grey

“I am afraid you have yourself to blame”: Psychology, gynaecology and the deferment of blame in mid-twentieth century Australian medicine

Marta Hanson

Knowing Hands: Thinking With the Mind in Hand in Late Imperial Chinese Medicine

Elizabeth Harford

The making of an Ambulance Service in Sydney from its inception to 1960

Jacqueline Healy

Pestilence and Plague: From the Spanish flu to COVID-19

Eureka Henrich

Good Neighbours and Good Doctors: volunteers and migrant health in the 1950s and 1960s

Susan Heydon

New Zealanders, vaccination and health history in the making

Margaret Horsburgh

Our Health Journeys - the e-museum of medical history

Tsung-Jen Hung

Jamu’s circulation to Taiwan: Dis-chantment, re-chantment and the fetish of medical terms

Kathryn Irving, Lee-Ann Monk & Ross Jones

Legacies of Eugenics in Australia: a roundtable

James Isbister

Warmth, Milk, Bonding and Hygiene: How an Australian Paediatrician Shaped Neonatal Care in the 1950s

Diana Jefferies

Unfolding Narratives: Creating short films for nursing education that demonstrate current best practice for future historical analysis

Effie Karageorgos

Aftercare and the Second World War soldier: maintaining the masculinity of military men in the Trelowarren Rehabilitation Base, 1949-1970

David Kaufman

Sir James Barrett , his enormous influence in medicine and academia

Jayne Krisjanous

Did the successes of ‘quack’ medicine marketing in New Zealand influence the fate of Māori tohunga at the turn of the 20th century?

Helen Laffin & Elizabeth Milford

Surgical History Interpreted

Peter Lewis

Nurses who completed the Mental Retardation Certificate in New South Wales 1969 - 1985

Sarah Luke

A pretty good deal? Analysing the burials at Gladesville Hospital Cemetery (1880 to 1903)

Rebecca Lush

100 Years of Collecting

Janie Mason

Re-Interpreting the civilian nurse role in Darwin’s first bombing raids 1942 - Sister Eileen Mary Neenan MBE

Marilyn McMurchie

What is the role of the clinical record in the history of medicine?

Jennifer Munday

Recording what happened: medical history no longer on site

Christopher Orrell

Medicine in the Colonies: Searching for the emergence of local cultures of medicine in the nineteenth century Australian colonies through digital analysis of medical journals, 1856-1900

Jessica Parr

Heart disease epidemiology and obesity in Aotearoa New Zealand

Neil Pollock

The Medical Contributions of Louis Pasteur

Hans Pols

Medicine without Physicians: Do-It-Yourself Doctoring in the Dutch East Indies

Ann-Marie Quinn

Public virtue, private ambition: The quiet rise of entrepreneurial women in New Zealand’s private hospitals 1900 - 1935

Hugo Ree

Islands of Segregation, c. 1870-1907. A comparative socio political study of Queensland and British Columbia (Canada)

Ian Roberts-Thomson

Showcasing the history of medicine

Emily Rose

Resisting the System: Counter-Narratives in the Australian Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement, 1970-1990

Gabrielle Rutter

“They all evince a desire to go home when they get to the Melbourne Hospital”: The admission and discharge of Indigenous people to and from the Melbourne Hospital during the mid to late 19th century

Rebecca Sachse

Graeco-Roman fertility understandings of 'compatible coupling' and its misuse in 21st-century debates on women's reproductive rights

Gemma Lucy Smart

Big Feelings as Methodological Justice: Addressing Epistemic Inequities in Medical Oral Histories

Natalie Smith

Medical advertising in 1970s Australia: an exploration of the MD Australia journal

Catherine Storey

Using an anniversary of the 1919 pandemic to ’sell’ History of Medicine to Physicians

Meredith Temple-Smith

Making Health History Downunder – The Role of Anatomy

C. Michele Thompson

The Tuệ Tĩnh Ðường Medical Clinic and Contemporary Engaged Buddhism in Vietnam

Nadeem Toodayan

Harvey Cushing’s Life of Sir William Osler: 1925-2025

Ann Westmore

Advances in bacteriology amid oceans of lung complaints: The persistence of ideas about the restorative power of sea voyages and fresh air

Kath Weston

Drainage and disease in Australia’s colonial prison system

Kath Weston

Animalia – the critical importance of animals in medical history

Neil Westphalen

The Royal Australian Navy (RAN)’s role in advancing the nation’s interests requires a range of supporting elements ashore and afloat

Richard Trathen White

How favourably or unfavourably were the psychiatrists of New South Wales regarded by their medical colleagues circa 1900?

Roger Wilkinson

The search for Isabella

Ian Willis

Camden Cottage Hospital, the early days of a New South Wales rural hospital, 1899-1902

Peter Winterton

London Calling

Neville Yeomans

Homeopathy in Colonial Australia: Homœopathic Hospitals and the Battle with Allopathy