Linda Bryder (born 1956) is a

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medical history academic. In 2008 she was appointed professor at the

University of Auckland , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn F ...

Academic career

After completing a MA(Hons) at the

, and a 1985

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thesis on the social history of

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in Britain, at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

, Bryder returned to Auckland, where she continued her research into the social history of medicine. Bryder's highest profile work has been in relation to the

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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 and in the popular press. In 2010 she was invited to write an editorial in the ''New Zealand Journal of History'' on her research, and in 2018 she published a letter in the ''New Zealand Medical Journal'' drawing on new relevant international research. In 2019 and 2020 studies were published in Britain validating her original findings. Bryder has over 100 academic publications. These include a history of National Women's Hospital and a history of the Royal New Zealand

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. In 2009, Bryder was elected a

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Selected works

* Bryder, Linda (1987). "The first world war: healthy or hungry?." ''

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'', 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''.

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. * Bryder, Linda (ed.) (1991). ''A Healthy Country: Essays on the Social History of Medicine in New Zealand.'' Bridget Williams Books. * * 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''.

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. * Bryder, Linda (2014). ''The Rise and Fall of National Women’s Hospital: A History.'' Auckland University Press.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bryder, Linda 1959 births Living people New Zealand women historians Alumni of the University of Oxford Academic staff of the University of Auckland 20th-century New Zealand historians 21st-century New Zealand historians Medical historians Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand