History of Medicine Lectures
The Association is proud to present a series of lectures on the History of Medicine each year.
These usually take place on the last Thursday of the month during the academic year.
Check the University of Otago Events Calendar for details of upcoming lectures.
Recordings of past lectures
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2021
"The miracle drug": Penicillin and its introduction into New Zealand
Claire Macindoe, May 2021
Dr Joseph Crocome and the woman that shaped him
Trevor Walker, April 2021
Dr Isaiah De Zouche M.D.
David Jones, March 2021
2020
The Grim Reaper's second harvest: Reflections on the 1918 influenza pandemic in Dunedin with a COVID twist Dr Warwich Brunton and Dr Susan Jack, November 2020
The Society of Apothecaries and the origins of the general practitioner
Terence Doyle, 29 October 2020
Women in medicine
Meghan Scanlan, 24 September 2020
John Halliday Scott: Why did he depart Edinburgh (and his position as Demonstrator in one of the greatest Departments of Anatomy in the World), and go to Dunedin, New Zealand in 1877?
Professor Allan B Maclean, July 2020
At home in the asylum, Seacliff 1880sā1920
Professor Barbara Brookes, 25 June 2020
A confederacy of dunces
Dr Paul Trani, February 2020
2019
Dr Turbott: The New Zealand radio doctor
Claire Macindoe, 26 November 2019
Circulation: William Harvey'ā's revolutionary discovery
Terence Doyle, 29 October 2020
Roll [h]on: Towards a new Dunedin Hospital
Dr David Jones, 29 August 2019
Surgery calls art to its aid: The life and work of Sir Harold Gillies
Arthur McTavish, 25 July 2019
The medical mind of Shakespeare
Terence Doyle, 27 June 2019
What lies beneath: A history of Dunedin conveniences
Alison Breese, 30 May 2019
Death in the pot. A history of food adulteration and poisoning
Terence Doyle, 2 May 2019
A pound of flesh: Human remains, ethics & museums in tertiary education
Paulette Milnes, March 2019
The asbestos saga: Consequences of supplanting science with commercial greed
Gil Barbezat, February 2019
2018
Final wishes: The rise of willed body programs in America
Dr Susan E. Lederer, 27 September 2018
Gundecks
Richard Hart, 30 August 2018
The convergence of history on our Otago collections
Dr Louisa Baillie, 26 July 2018
2017
Hormones Presented by
Gil Barbezat, 30 November 2017
The New Zealand eugenics movement Presented by
Hamish Spencer, 26 October 2017
Smallpox Presented by
Sue Heydon, 31 August 2017
The right to refuse: Compulsory vaccination in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during World War 1, 1914ā1918 Presented by
Lea Doughty, 27 July 2017
The vulgar errors of Sir Thomas Browne (1605ā1682) Presented by
Dr Ross Grimmett, 29 June 2017
Brain, mind, heart, soul in Aristotle Presented by
Grant Gillett, 25 May 2017
Islamic science and medicine Presented by
Terry Doyle, 27 April 2017
Medics in apartheid South Africa Presented by
Gil Barbezat, 30 March 2017
2016
Microbiologists and clinicians killed in action Presented by
Dr Antje van de Linden, 27 October 2016
The doctor in spite of himself
Dr John Holmes, 29 September 2016
Natural history of quackery Presented by
Terry Doyle, 25 August 2016
History of neurosurgery Presented by
Dirk de Ridder, 28 July 2016
Welfare state, medicine Presented by
Stan Rodger, 31 March 2016
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