WMHS TALKS ARCHIVE

Eponymity | presented by Michael Harrison MD FRCA FANZCA

Eponymity | presented by Michael Harrison MD FRCA FANZCA

Date: Wednesday 2nd October, 2024

Presented by: Dr Michael Harrison

Location: Newtown Salvation Army Worship and Community Centre, 4 Normanby Street, Newtown

Presentation Topic: Eponymity: The state of being identified and recognised by name. Some in this group of physicians were good, but some were not so good. Was the man above the former, or the latter?

Michael trained in the UK in anaesthesia.   He spent ten years there as a specialist in anaesthesia and intensive care, and in academia, before moving to New Zealand in 1987.   As an anaesthetist in Auckland he continued research in collaboration with Auckland University and with The Institute of Biomedical Technologies (IBTec), AUT.

Talks given to WMHS previously:

The Falkland War

Harrison – The 1950s BAA WMHS.ppt

British Academic Anaesthetists – the book

Iain Glen – Propofol

Herbert Barker – Manipulative Surgeon

2017 The Very Early History of Modern Anaesthesia
2018 James Young Simpson of Edinburgh
2021 Emergency Medicine in a cold climate, April 1982 The Falkland War
2023 The 1950s British Academic Anaesthetists