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...
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...
The great women of anaesthesia: Emily Hancock Siedeberg McKinnon
This post is one in a series uncovering the stories of early women anaesthetists from Australia and New Zealand. In a very polite letter to the Chancellor of the University of Otago, dated 10 March, 1891, 18 year old Emily Siedeberg expressed her desire to study...