The History of Women in Medicine at the 2018 Sydney ASM
For the last few years the museum has been attending the ANZCA Annual Scientific Meeting. It seems a natural place to fully launch our exhibitions, meet fellows and trainees, and promote the incredible history and heritage of the specialties of anaesthesia and pain...
The Rare Privilege of Medicine – a new exhibition
On International Women’s Day we launched our new exhibition, The Rare Privilege of Medicine: Women anaesthetists in Australia and New Zealand. It’s a small offering, highlighting 10 women from the late 19th Century through to the mid 20th Century, but it also features...
The benefits of hands-on history
Jack Rayner is a 2nd year student of history at Swinburne University. Jack is a recent addition to the volunteer team at the Geoffrey Kaye Museum and has been attempting to take classroom skills into the real-world. His research will be contributing to a 2018...
International Symposium on the History of Anesthesia (Part 2)
A conference’s opening reception is often an indication of how well the whole event will come together. At the 9th International Symposium on the History of Anaesthesia (ISHA), the opening reception was held at the famous Ether Dome at Massachusetts General Hospital....