Linda Bryder | |
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 Bryder in 2021 | |
| Born | January 14, 1956 |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford, Faculty of Modern History |
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| Fields | Medical history |
| Institutions | University of Auckland |
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Linda Bryder (born 1956) is a New Zealand medical history academic. In 2008, she was appointed professor at the University of Auckland. [1] [2]
After completing a MA(Hons) at the University of Auckland, and a 1985 DPhil thesis on the social history of tuberculosis in Britain, at the University of Oxford, Bryder returned to Auckland, where she continued her research into the social history of medicine. [1] [2] [3]
Bryder's highest profile work has been in relation to the Cartwright Inquiry into the 'unfortunate experiment'. Her 2009 book A History of the 'Unfortunate Experiment' at National Women's Hospital did not support one of the inquiry's central findings (that there had been a prospective study) and attracted a great deal of attention in academia [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] and in the popular press. [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] In 2010, Bryder wrote an editorial in the New Zealand Medical Journal, by invitation, responding to criticisms of her book. [16] In 2018, she published a letter in the New Zealand Medical Journal drawing on new relevant international research. [17] In 2019 and 2020, studies were published in Britain validating her original findings. [18] [19] [20] [21]
Bryder has over 100 academic publications. These include a history of National Women's Hospital [22] [23] and a history of the Royal New Zealand Plunket Society, [24] and her 2024 book The Best Country to Give Birth? which investigates the midwifery movement in New Zealand. [25]
In 2009, Bryder was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. [3]
Phillida Bunkle is a former New Zealand politician. She represented the Alliance in Parliament from 1996 to 2002, when she retired. Bunkle was for many years a lecturer at Victoria University.
The Cartwright Inquiry was a committee of inquiry held in New Zealand from 1987 to 1988 that was commissioned by the Minister of Health, Michael Bassett, to investigate whether, as alleged in an article in Metro magazine, there had been a failure to treat patients adequately with cervical carcinoma in situ (CIS) at National Women’s Hospital (NWH) by Herbert Green, a specialist obstetrician and gynaecologist and associate professor at the Postgraduate School of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Auckland. The inquiry was headed by District Court Judge Silvia Cartwright, later High Court Justice, Dame and Governor-General of New Zealand. The Report of the Cervical Cancer Inquiry was released on 5 August 1988.
Alice Mary Bush was a pioneering New Zealand female physician, paediatrician and activist for family planning services and abortion access.
George Herbert Green, B.A., BSc, M.B., Ch.B.,, M.R.C.O.G.(Lond.), was a New Zealand Obstetrician and Gynaecologist who led the National Women's Hospital Cervical Cancer Unit as Professor through the 1960s and 1970s and became notorious for conducting an alleged unethical experiment that was the subject of the Cartwright Inquiry.
Sir Frederic Truby King, generally known as Truby King, was a New Zealand health reformer and Director of Child Welfare. He is best known as the founder of the Plunket Society.
Sandra Lorraine Coney is a New Zealand local-body politician, writer, feminist, historian, and women's health campaigner.
Tracy Russell Inglis was an Auckland medical practitioner, war surgeon and sports administrator.
Henry Jellett (1872–1948) was an eminent Irish gynaecologist, and author.
Hilda Margaret Northcroft (1882–1951) was a New Zealand medical doctor and community leader.
Alice Hannah Holford was a New Zealand nurse, midwife and hospital matron.
Hanorah Philomena FitzGibbon MBE was a New Zealand civilian and military nurse, hospital matron and nursing administrator.
Muriel Helen Deem was a New Zealand medical doctor, medical officer, Plunket medical adviser and university lecturer.
Amelia Bagley was a New Zealand hospital matron, midwife and nursing administrator. She was born in Dunedin, New Zealand on 2 October 1870.
Rachelina Hepburn Armitage was a New Zealand welfare worker and community leader.
National Women's Hospital, founded in 1955, was a public hospital specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology in Auckland, New Zealand. Initially located in Cornwall Hospital it moved to a purpose built building adjacent to Green Lane Hospital and Cornwall Park from 1964. In 2004 its services moved to Auckland City Hospital.
Charles Maurice Bevan-Brown was a New Zealand psychiatrist and psychotherapist who practised in Christchurch from the 1940s to the 1960s. He established a clinic for medical psychology and founded the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists. He was influential in the formation and ethos of Parents' Centres New Zealand.
Jocelyn Maud Ryburn was a long-serving President of the New Zealand Plunket Society.
The Karitane Hospitals were six hospitals in New Zealand run by the Plunket Society, located in Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Invercargill, Wanganui and Wellington. They were established as training hospitals for Karitane nurses and cared for babies with malnutrition and other dietetic complaints, and premature babies. They also offered mother care training and assistance. The first hospital opened in 1907 and the hospitals were closed between 1978 and 1980 due to financial difficulties and changes in society and maternity services.
The St Helens Hospitals were maternity hospitals located in seven New Zealand cities. They were the first state-run maternity hospitals in the world offering both midwifery services and midwifery training. The first hospital opened in 1905 in Wellington and the last one in Wanganui in 1921. The services of the St Helens Hospitals were gradually incorporated into other hospitals and the last hospital to close was in Auckland in 1990.
Vera Jane Ellis-Crowther was a Liverpool-born New Zealand nurse and midwife. An early advocate for the use of anaesthetic during childbirth, Ellis-Crowther operated the Waitemata Obstetric Hospital in Glen Eden, West Auckland from 1945 to 1954. Later in life, Ellis-Crowther became an advocate for home birthing, delivering over 1,000 home birth babies in New Zealand.
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