Performing with Difficulty | presenter David Barker
Following on from last year’s presentation on musicians who died young of medical issues, we have a selection of musicians who managed to make a career despite their medical issues,...
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Women Doctors on the Nineteenth Century Stage: Education and Entertainment
Barbara Brookes is Professor Emerita in History, University of Otago. Her work has focused on the intersections between the history of women and the history of medicine. She is the author of the prize-winning, A History of Women in New Zealand (Bridget Williams Books, 2016). She is completing a biography of Anna Longshore Potts, provisionally entitled 'Performing Medicine'.
July 2025
Drs Henry and Cecily Pickerill, Mother-Nursing, and Cleft Lip and Palate Surgery on Infant Patients at the Bassam Hospital, 1939-1967
I examine the pioneering work of New Zealand plastic surgeons Henry and Cecily Pickerill, specifically their establishment of the Bassam Hospital in 1939. For nearly thirty years this small, private...
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