Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine

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ELEVENTH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE, 2009

MONDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER TO FRIDAY 2 OCTOBER

PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

 

WESTWARD HO!

Health and History at the Frontier

 

Venue

Function Centre, University Club, University of Western Australia, Crawley

 

Programme

Monday evening, 28 September: welcome function

Tuesday 29 September ¡V Thursday 1 October: conference sessions

Friday 2 October: all day trip to Benedictine Monastery New Norcia

 

Conference themes will include:

The Dutch and French Connections

Aboriginal Health

Asbestos Related Disease

Underwater Medicine

Monks and Medicine

St John of God Hospital(s)

Infectious Disease

100th Year Anniversary ¡V Princess Margaret Hospital for Children

Medicine in Numis

Dentistry

Pharmacy

 

Witness Seminar

Wittenoom [blue asbestos]

 

        the richest and most lethal crop of cases of asbestosis in the world's literature

                                                                        Dr Eric Saint, 1948

 

Post Conference Suggestions

• Rottnest Island

• Wildflower Tour

• Karri Forests

• Margaret River Wineries

 

Convenor: Max Kamien

mkamien@cyllene.uwa.edu.au

mob. 0419 930 660;  ph. 9385 8685