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A view of the inner cemeteries, Reuben Johnson
Mind that Child: A Medical Memoir Simon Rowley with Adam Dudding Penguin, $35.00, ISBN 9780143771982 We can Make a Life: A Memoir of Family, Earthquake and Courage Chessie Henry Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781776561940 Dr Simon Rowley is a…
Private life and public record, Kate Hannah
The Unconventional Career of Dr Muriel Bell Diana Brown Otago University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781988531304 Perhaps some are surprised that a scientist whose impact on New Zealand’s health, particularly the health of women and children, could have been, up until…
Tagged with: Autumn 2019, Diana Brown, Issue 125, Muriel Bell, Otago University Press
Posted in Biography, Health, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Health, Non-fiction, Review
Turning a blind eye, Rae Varcoe
Doctors in Denial: The Forgotten Women in the “Unfortunate Experiment” Ronald W Jones Otago University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780947522438 My first acquaintance with National Women’s Hospital was as a final-year medical student in 1968. It was an unpleasant experience of…
Tagged with: Issue 118, Otago University Press, Rae Varcoe, Ronald W Jones, Winter 2017
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Science in the headlines, Rae Varcoe
The Edge of Life: Controversies and Challenges in Human Health Mike Berridge BWB Texts, $15.00, ISBN 9780909321339 BWB Texts is publishing a series of “Short books on big topics by great New Zealand writers” each month. They are edited by…
Tagged with: BWB Texts, Issue 115, Mike Berridge, Rae Varcoe, Spring 2016
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
The fungibility of human longevity, Charlotte Paul
The Healthy Country? A History of Life and Death in New Zealand Alistair Woodward and Tony Blakely Auckland University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781869408138 Non-Māori New Zealanders lived longer than any other peoples on earth between 1876 and 1940. Figuring out…
Tagged with: Alistair Woodward, Auckland University Press, Charlotte Paul, Issue 110, Tony Blakely, Winter 2015
Posted in Health, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Health, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Lessons from history, Bronwyn Labrum
Rough on Women: Abortion in 19th Century New Zealand Margaret Sparrow Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864739360 Someone I follow on Twitter reported that a friend of hers had no idea that abortion is yet to be decriminalised in New…
Tagged with: Bronwyn Labrum, Issue 110, Margaret Sparrow, Victoria University Press, Winter 2015
Posted in Gender, Health, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, Health, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
No drive-by answers, David Cohen
Sorrows of a Century: Interpreting Suicide in New Zealand, 1900-2000 John C Weaver Bridget Williams Books, $60.00, ISBN 9781927277232 All of us seek happiness, Pascal declared centuries ago, even at the point of a warm gun. “This is without exception,”…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, David Cohen, Issue 108, John C Weaver, Summer 2014
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Delivery suite, Rae Varcoe
The Rise and Fall of National Women’s Hospital Linda Bryder Auckland University Press ISBN 9781869408091 Many readers will be familiar with the furore which arose when Linda Bryder‘s A History of the ‘Unfortunate Experiment’ at National Women’s Hospital (2009) concluded…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 107, Linda Bryder, Rae Varcoe, Spring 2014
Posted in Health, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Health, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Diagnostic criteria, Rae Varcoe
Being a Doctor: Understanding Medical Practice Hamish Wilson and Wayne Cunningham Otago University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781877578366 I have been a doctor for 45 years. How I wish that this volume had been available 46 years ago. I emerged from…
Tagged with: Hamish Wilson, Issue 104, Otago University Press, Rae Varcoe, Summer 2013, Wayne Cunningham
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Profiting from health, Brian Easton
Democratic Governance and Health: Hospitals, Politics and Health Policy in New Zealand Miriam J Laugesen and Robin Gauld Otago University Press, $40.00. ISBN 9781877578 274 I have long puzzled over the point of local democracy in the highly centralised state…
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