Health, Medicine, and Society: Challenge and Change
Ari Hunter has been volunteering with the Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History since September 2015 when she undertook an internship to prepare a significance statement for the Bruck Inhaler. Since then, she has undertaken a range of research projects. The...
What’s on for 2017?
2017 marks 25 years since the establishment of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA). So, as part of ANZCA, we’ll be celebrating 25 years too. But, whether it’s related to 25 years or not, there’s plenty going on this year and you...
Why did the British anaesthetist, Joseph Clover (1825-1882), have bank accounts in New Zealand?
Joseph Clover trained initially as a surgeon but, by the 1860s, was one of the foremost anaesthetists in Britain. He was one of only a handful of doctors who devoted his practice to anaesthesia at that time. I have been researching his life for many years since the...
What is an honorary curator? A personal reflection
Thirty years ago I made a trip to the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in Spring Street, Melbourne with Dr Rod Westhorpe. At the time I was an anaesthetic registrar at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, approaching my final exams and the end of my...