Linda Bryder

After completing a MA(Hons) at the University of Auckland, and a 1985 DPhil thesis from the University of Oxford titled The problem of tuberculosis in England and Wales, 1900-1950, 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 2013 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] popular press[9][10][11] and wider public.[12][13][14] She has also written about the history of National Women's Hospital[15] and the Plunket Society.

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

• Bryder, Linda. Below the magic mountain: a social history of tuberculosis in twentieth-century Britain. Oxford University Press, 1988.
• Rice, Geoffrey, and Linda Bryder. Black November: the 1918 influenza pandemic in New Zealand. University of Canterbury, 2005.
• Bryder, Linda. A voice for mothers: The Plunket Society and infant welfare, 1907-2000. Auckland University Press, 2003.
• Bryder, Linda. A History of the'unfortunate Experiment' at National Women's Hospital. Auckland University Press, 2013.
• Bryder, Linda. "The first world war: healthy or hungry?." In History Workshop Journal, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 141–157. Oxford University Press, 1987.

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• Publications by Linda Bryder, at ResearchGate