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date: 20 January 2021

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This article considers trends in the writing of medical history in Australia and New Zealand since the 1980s. It traces the growing maturity of the discipline in this geographical region. It pinpoints a particular contribution to the wider discipline, the history of the health of indigenous peoples and their interaction with the state as well as the current political resonances of such historiography. It also shows how the history of health and medicine contributes to a broader understanding of those societies and their sense of nationalism or identity. Finally it addresses transnationalism in health histories and the ways in which medicine in these societies reflected or deviated from developments in the international medical community. This article demonstrates how international histories of medicine, as well as local social and political histories, have been enriched by this expanding historiography.

Keywords: history, health, transnationalism, medicine, Australia

Linda Bryder

Linda Bryder is Professor of History at the University of Auckland and Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and holds an Honorary Chair at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has published widely in the history of public health in the twentieth century, including three monographs: Below the Magic Mountain: A Social History of Tuberculosis in Twentieth-Century Britain (1988); A Voice for Mothers: The Plunket Society and Infant Welfare, 1907–2000 (2003); and Women's Bodies and Medical Science: An Inquiry into Cervical Cancer (2010). She is currently on the editorial boards of Medical History and Health and History, and is President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine.

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