Books
Manifesto Aotearoa
101 political poems
Philip Temple and Emma Neale, editors
New Zealand poets from diverse cultures, young and old, new and seasoned, from the Bay of Islands to Bluff, rally for justice on everything from a degraded environment to systemically embedded poverty; from the long, painful legacy of colonialism to explosive issues of sexual consent.
Communally these writers show that political poems can be the most vivid and eloquent calls for empathy, for action and revolution, even for a simple calling to account.
Philip Temple is an award-winning author of fiction and non-fiction, often on subjects associated with New Zealand history and the natural world. Emma Neale has written six novels and a number of poetry collections, and has edited anthologies of both short stories and poetry.
Doctors in Denial
The forgotten women in the “unfortunate experiment”
Ronald W. Jones
When Dr Ron Jones joined the staff of National Women's Hospital in Auckland in 1973 Professor Herbert Green's study into the natural history of carcinoma in-situ of the cervix (CIS) had been in progress for seven years. This study of women with CIS – without their consent – involved observing, rather than definitively treating them. Many women subsequently developed cancer and some died.
In 1984 Jones and senior colleagues Dr Bill McIndoe and Dr Jock McLean published a scientific paper that exposed this and, in a public inquiry in 1987, Judge Sylvia Cartwright observed that an unethical experiment had been carried out in large numbers of women for over 20 years.
However, since that time there have been attempts to cast Green's work in a more generous light. Jones, a now-retired obstetrician and gynaecologist and former clinical professor, is setting the record straight by telling his story – a story of unnecessary suffering, misplaced loyalties and of doctors in denial of the truth.
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