Portrait of Dr Rodney Mitchell
At the end of each president’s term, the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) commissions a portrait. There is now quite the collection of painted portraits dating back to 1992, when the college formally came into being. In 2016, ANZCA Council...
“Spiritus Anaesthesiae”, The Reach of Anaesthesia
Dr David Fenwick is a retired anaesthetist from South Australia. In 2010, Dr Fenwick gifted the college a bronze statuette, representing Spiritus Anaesthesiae. In this blog post, Dr Fenwick describes his inspiration, as well as the benefits of anaesthesia and...Dancing on the Fault Line – a gift to ANZCA
The ANZCA corporate collection is, in many ways, an unlikely collection of objects. They have been gifted to the college for a number of reasons, by a range of people, and speak strongly about the relationship between the college and the donor. Among the collection...
History is happening now – collecting Covid-19
It’s easy to think of history as some inaccessible, distant past with little relationship to the here and now. It’s sometimes hard to reconcile the notion of ‘history’ with the world in its current state. The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted social behaviours, forced a...