Linda Bryder

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.{{cite web |url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/who-we-are/our-people/our-fellows/all-fellows/a-c/ |title=List of all Fellows with surnames A–C |publisher=Royal Society of New Zealand |accessdate=26 April 2019}}

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{{Cite journal|last=Carrell|first=Robin W. |date=2012|title=Trial By Media|journal=Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science|doi=10.1098/rsnr.2012.0028 |s2cid=162560322 |doi-access=free}}{{cite journal |url=https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal/read-the-journal/all-issues/2010-2019/2010/vol-123-no-1308/review-heslop |title=A History of the 'Unfortunate Experiment' at National Women's Hospital (Linda Bryder) |journal=New Zealand Medical Journal}}{{cite journal |url=https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal/read-the-journal/all-issues/2010-2019/2010/vol-123-no-1311/letter-overton |title=In defence of Linda Bryder's book A History of the 'Unfortunate Experiment' at National Women's Hospital |journal=New Zealand Medical Journal}}{{cite journal |url=https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal/read-the-journal/all-issues/2010-2019/2010/vol-123-no-1309/letter-jones |title=National Women's Hospital deserves a fair and balanced history—with response by Linda Bryder |journal=New Zealand Medical Journal}}{{cite web |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/profs-join-stand-against-criticism-cartwright-inquiry |title=Profs join stand against criticism of Cartwright Inquiry |date=25 January 2010 |publisher=}}{{cite web |url=http://skeptics.nz/journal/issues/98/orthodoxy-restated |title=Orthodoxy Restated |date=31 January 2011 |publisher=}} and in the popular press.{{cite web |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10659376 |title=No accounting for mistakes |first=Chris |last=Barton |date=16 July 2010 |publisher= |via=www.nzherald.co.nz}}{{cite web |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10598213 |title=An unfortunate fallout: Academics against Bryder's revisionist history |first=Chris |last=Barton |date=18 September 2009 |publisher= |via=www.nzherald.co.nz}}{{cite web |url=https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2029333/linda-bryder-unfortunate-experiment-revisited |title=Linda Bryder: unfortunate experiment revisited |date=17 March 2011 |publisher=}} {{cite web |url=http://www.cartwrightinquiry.com/?page_id=95 |title=Recent Controversy concerning Professor Linda Bryder's Historical Revisionism - Cartwright Inquiry |website=www.cartwrightinquiry.com}}{{cite web |url=https://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2010/08/19/professor-linda-bryder-responses-to-a-history-of-the-unfortunate-experiment/ |title=Professor Linda Bryder: Responses to 'A History of the "Unfortunate Experiment"' |date=19 August 2010 |publisher=}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.womenshealthcouncil.org.nz/Features/Cartwright+Inquiry.html|title = Cartwright Inquiry}} In 2010, Bryder wrote an editorial in the New Zealand Medical Journal, by invitation, responding to criticisms of her book.{{cite web |last1=Bryder |first1=Linda |title=A response to criticisms of The History of the 'Unfortunate Experiment' at National Women's Hospital |url=https://nzmj.org.nz/media/pages/journal/vol-123-no-1319/a-response-to-criticisms-of-the-history-of-the-unfortunate-experiment-at-national-women-s-hospital/ea30f9e287-1696472225/a-response-to-criticisms-of-the-history-of-the-unfortunate-experiment-at-national-women-s-hospital.pdf |website=The New Zealand Medical Journal |publisher=The New Zealand Medical Journal |access-date=3 August 2024}} In 2018, she published a letter in the New Zealand Medical Journal drawing on new relevant international research.{{Cite journal|last=Bryder|first=Linda|date=2018|title=Letter: Primum non nocere: First do no harm.|url=https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/42490?show=full|journal=New Zealand Medical Journal|volume=131|issue=1475|pages=81–83|via=Research Space}} In 2019 and 2020, studies were published in Britain validating her original findings.{{Cite book|last1=Raffle|first1=AE|title=Screening: Evidence and Practice|last2=Mackie|first2=A|last3=Gray|first3=JAM |publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2019|location=Oxford}}{{Cite journal|last1=Knottnerus|first1=J. André |last2=Tugwell|first2=Peter|date=2020|title=Primum non nocere: appropriate evidence assessment and fair judgment over time |journal=Journal of Clinical Epidemiology|language=en|volume=122 |pages=A6–A7|doi=10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.04.011|pmid=32448443 |doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal|last1=Raffle|first1=Angela E.|last2=Gray|first2=J.A. Muir|date=2020|title=The 1960s cervical screening incident at National Women's Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand: insights for screening research, policy making, and practice|journal=Journal of Clinical Epidemiology|language=en|volume=122|pages=A8–A13|doi=10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.04.008|pmid=32448444|doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal |last=Chalmers|first=Iain|date=2020|title=The "unfortunate experiment" that was not, and the indebtedness of women and children to Herbert ("Herb") Green (1916–2001)|journal=Journal of Clinical Epidemiology|language=en|volume=122|pages=A14–A20|doi=10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.04.007|pmid=32448442|doi-access=free}}

Bryder has over 100 academic publications. These include a history of National Women's Hospital{{Cite web|last=Clendon|first=Heather|date=2014|title=Compelling History of National Women's Hospital|url=https://sciblogs.co.nz/scibooks/2014/03/30/hospitals-history-far-from-an-unfortunate-experiment/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=Scibooks}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11198151 |title=A headline-making hospital |first=Andrew |last=Stone |date=7 February 2014 |newspaper=The New Zealand Herald}} and a history of the Royal New Zealand Plunket Society,{{Cite journal|last1=Anderson|first1=Ian|last2=Bryder|first2=Linda|date=2004|title=A Voice for Mothers; The Plunket Society and Infant Welfare 1907-2000|journal=Health and History|volume=6|issue=1|pages=130|doi=10.2307/40111473|jstor=40111473|issn=1442-1771}} and her 2024 book The Best Country to Give Birth? which investigates the midwifery movement in New Zealand.{{cite web |last1=Evans |first1=Julianne |title=Linda Bryder's latest book a labour of love |url=https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2023/11/30/linda-bryder-book-midwifery-history.html |website=The University of Auckland |publisher=UniNews |access-date=3 August 2024}}

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

• 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.
• {{Cite book|last=Bryder, Linda |title=A voice for mothers : the Plunket Society and infant welfare, 1907-2000|date=2003|publisher=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.

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