Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine, New South Wales records

MLMSS 11896
DC 19

fonds

1989-2009

Textual Records, Ephemera

975830

0.32 metres of textual material (2 boxes)
2 computer discs - 12 cm - compact disc

In October 1953, the Society began as the Section of Medical History of the Victorian Branch of the British Medical Association (BMA). Membership was restricted to members of the BMA resulting in an almost entirely medical membership. The aims of the Society were to further the study of medical history and to support the collection of historical material and formation of a museum.
In 1962, with the formation of the Australian Medical Association (AMA), came the Section of Medical History of the Victorian Branch of the AMA. In 1982 with an amendment, the group officially became the Medical History Society, AMA (Victoria).
In July 1994, the Victorian Branch of the AMA restructured its organisation with a prerequisite that any academic affiliated organisation have an AMA membership of 40. The Section found that despite its growth in overall membership, it was unable to meet this requirement. In 1997 it thus formed a separate incorporated body, the Medical History Society of Victoria, with no restrictions on full membership eligibility.
It was not until 2009 at the AGM of the MHSV that its President was able to announce that the Victorian Society was now a branch of the ANZSHM, and later that year, the NSW Society of the History of Medicine followed suit.
​The Society now brings together all those interested in the history of medicine in its widest aspects, a happy blend of historians and clinicians.
Information taken from the Society's website https://www.anzshm.org.au/history-of-anzshm

Compact discs removed from MLMSS 11896/Box 2. Now at DC 19

Box 1
Folder 1
Records of the Sixth Biennial Conference of the Australian Society of the History of Medicine, July 7-10, 1999

Folder 2
Submissions on the Sydney Quarantine Station 2001
Correspondence regarding the Graythwaite site
Correspondence and clippings regarding awards, invitations and obituaries

Folder 3
Flyers from various events dating from 1989-2008

Folder 4
Papers belonging to the founding treasurer, Hazel Woolston, 1989-1994. They include minutes, financial statements, meeting and conference agendas.

Attendance register book, 1989-2007


Box 2
Folder 1
N.S.W. Society for the History of Medicine Newsletter, November 2000-March 2007. Plus index.

Folder 2
Executive Committee minutes, November 1989-October 2007.

Folder 3
Annual General Meeting minutes and reports, 1989-2007

Folder 4
Constitution, rules and Certificate of Incorporation

Folder 5
Membership brochures

Folder 6
Membership survey 2004

Folder 7
Copied article 'Plants in the works of Cervantes' by Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana, Javier Tardio, Michael Heinrich, Alain Touwaide and Ramon Morales. Autographed by Alain Touwaide.

DC 19/1-2
Disc 1
Photographs of Alain Touwaide and N.S.W. Society for the History of Medicine officers at the State Library of New South Wales for the Ben Hanneman Lecture, 2007. Photography by Scott Wajon.

Disc 2
Electronic documents from 2001-2007 created by Peter Tyler, previous President and Secretary.

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