The Royal Children's Hospital; A History of faith, science and love.
Rushcutters Bay, New South Wales, Australia: Halstead Press, 1999. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 9 inches by 11.5 inches. 656 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Medical Glossary. Appendices. Bibliography. Picture Sources. Index. Foreword by Dame Elisabeth Murdoch. Dr Peter Yule is a historian and a fellow of the School of History at the University of Melbourne. He has written a wide range of histories, including The Royal Children's Hospital: A History of Faith, Science and Love (1999), In the Public Interest: 150 Years of the Victorian Auditor-General's Office (2002), Carlton: A History (ed., 2004), and Steel Spies and Spin: The Collins Class Submarine Story (2008). More recently he has written biographies of two prominent Melbourne-based financiers: W. L. Baillieu (1859-1936), who founded the prominent family dynasty; and Sir Ian Potter (1902-1994), a major figure in Australia's post-war industrial expansion. Peter will speak about his research on these two remarkable figures, and on the challenges of biography more generally. The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne Archives serves as the hospital’s corporate memory by collecting and preserving the hospital’s cultural heritage and unique identity. The role of the Archives is to support the various business, educational, research and patient care activities of the hospital, including its administrative recordkeeping requirements; educating staff and students on the traditions of the hospital; providing a sense of identity to the hospital community; support for public affairs, fundraising and community engagement campaigns; and providing research services. The collection provides wonderful insight into the diverse activities of the hospital through the years and includes both historical and contemporary materials. The RCH Archives is currently involved in the development of the Visual History Bank which will give prominence and provide access to the RCH collections and be a valuable resource for the 150th Celebrations in 2020. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Royal Children’s Hospital, Pediatrics, Medicine, Elisabeth Murdoch, Doctors, Nursing, Disabled, Jean Macnamara, Polio, Douglas Galbraith, Ella Latham, Neonatology, Vernon Collins, Elaine Orr, Howard Williams, Jeffreys Wood
ISBN: 187568431X
[Book #77620]
Price: $200.00