Linda Bryder

Linda Bryder (born 1956) is a New Zealand medical history academic. In 2008 she was appointed professor at the University of Auckland.[1][2]

Linda Bryder
Born	1956 (age 63–64)
Alma mater	University of Oxford, Faculty of Modern History
Scientific career
Fields	Medical history
Institutions	University of Auckland
Thesis	The problem of tuberculosis in England and Wales, 1900-1950 (1985)

Academic career

After completing a MA(Hons) at the University of Auckland, and a 1985 DPhil thesis on the social history of tuberculosis in Britain, at the University of Oxford, Bryder returned to Auckland, where she continued her research into the social history of medicine.[1][2][3]

Bryder's highest profile work has been in relation to the Cartwright Inquiry into the 'unfortunate experiment'. Her 2009 book A History of the 'Unfortunate Experiment' at National Women's Hospital did not support one of the inquiry's central findings (that there had been a prospective study) and attracted a great deal of attention in academia[4][5][6][7][8][9] and in the popular press.[10][11][12] [13][14][15] In 2010 she was invited to write an editorial in the New Zealand Journal of History on her research,[16] and in 2018 she published a letter in the New Zealand Medical Journal drawing on new relevant international research.[17] In 2019 and 2020 studies were published in Britain validating her original findings.[18][19][20][21]

Bryder has over 100 academic publications. These include a history of National Women's Hospital[22][23] and a history of the Royal New Zealand Plunket Society.[24]

In 2009, Bryder was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.[3]

Selected works

• Bryder, Linda (1987). "The first world war: healthy or hungry?." History Workshop Journal, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 141–157. Oxford University Press.
• Bryder, Linda (1988). Below the magic mountain: a social history of tuberculosis in twentieth-century Britain. Oxford University Press.
• Bryder, Linda (ed.) (1991). A Healthy Country: Essays on the Social History of Medicine in New Zealand. Bridget Williams Books.
• Bryder, Linda (2003). A voice for mothers : the Plunket Society and infant welfare, 1907-2000. Auckland University Press. ISBN 1-86940-290-1. OCLC 53216096.
• Rice, Geoffrey, and Linda Bryder (2005). Black November: the 1918 influenza pandemic in New Zealand. University of Canterbury,.
• Bryder, Linda (2008). "Debates about Cervical Screening: An Historical Overview", Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 62 (4), 284-287. DOI:10.1136/jech.2006.059246.
• Bryder, Linda (2009). A History of the 'Unfortunate Experiment' at National Women's Hospital. Auckland University Press.
• Bryder, Linda (2014). The Rise and Fall of National Women’s Hospital: A History. Auckland University Press.

References

1. "Professor Linda Bryder - The University of Auckland". www.arts.auckland.ac.nz.
2. "Professor Linda Bryder - The University of Auckland". www.arts.auckland.ac.nz.
3. "List of all Fellows with surnames A–C". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
4. Carrell, Robin W. (2012). "Trial By Media". Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science – via The Royal Society.
5. "A History of the 'Unfortunate Experiment' at National Women's Hospital (Linda Bryder)". New Zealand Medical Journal.
6. "In defence of Linda Bryder's book A History of the 'Unfortunate Experiment' at National Women's Hospital". New Zealand Medical Journal.
7. "National Women's Hospital deserves a fair and balanced history—with response by Linda Bryder". New Zealand Medical Journal.
8. "Profs join stand against criticism of Cartwright Inquiry". 25 January 2010.
9. "Orthodoxy Restated". 31 January 2011.
10. Barton, Chris (16 July 2010). "No accounting for mistakes" – via www.nzherald.co.nz.
11. Barton, Chris (18 September 2009). "An unfortunate fallout: Academics against Bryder's revisionist history" – via www.nzherald.co.nz.
12. "Linda Bryder: unfortunate experiment revisited". 17 March 2011.
13. "Recent Controversy concerning Professor Linda Bryder's Historical Revisionism - Cartwright Inquiry". www.cartwrightinquiry.com.
14. "Professor Linda Bryder: Responses to 'A History of the "Unfortunate Experiment"'". 19 August 2010.
15. https://www.womenshealthcouncil.org.nz/Features/Cartwright+Inquiry.html
16. Bryder, Linda (2010), "Conclusion: An 'Unfortunate Experiment'?", Women’s Bodies and Medical Science, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 197–201, ISBN 978-1-349-58915-9, retrieved 15 July 2020
17. Bryder, Linda (2018). "Letter: Primum non nocere: First do no harm". New Zealand Medical Journal. 131 No 1475: 81–83 – via Research Space.
18. Raffle, AE; Mackie, A; Gray, JAM (2019). Screening: Evidence and Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
19. Knottnerus, J. André; Tugwell, Peter (2020). "Primum non nocere: appropriate evidence assessment and fair judgment over time". Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 122: A6–A7. doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.04.011.
20. Raffle, Angela E.; Gray, J.A. Muir (2020). "The 1960s cervical screening incident at National Women's Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand: insights for screening research, policy making, and practice". Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 122: A8–A13. doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.04.008.
21. Chalmers, Iain (2020). "The "unfortunate experiment" that was not, and the indebtedness of women and children to Herbert ("Herb") Green (1916–2001)". Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 122: A14–A20. doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.04.007.
22. Clendon, Heather (2014). "Compelling History of National Women's Hospital". Scibooks.
23. Stone, Andrew (7 February 2014). "A headline-making hospital". The New Zealand Herald.
24. Anderson, Ian; Bryder, Linda (2004). "A Voice for Mothers; The Plunket Society and Infant Welfare 1907-2000". Health and History. 6 (1): 130. doi:10.2307/40111473. ISSN 1442-1771.

External links

• Linda Bryder on LinkedIn
• Publications by Linda Bryder, at ResearchGate