The Rise and Fall of National Women's Hospital

“An invaluable and impressive and thoroughly detailed history of one of the great NZ institutions… . The importance of this book to the general debate on the family and health and social welfare can hardly be overemphasized.” –Graeme Barrow, Northern Advocate, on A Voice for Mothers: The Plunket Society and Infant Welfare 1907-2000“Linda Bryder has made a valuable contribution to the medical social history of the infant welfare movement.” –Paula Watts, Medical History Australia magazine, on A Voice for Mothers: The Plunket Society and Infant Welfare 1907-2000“Provides a well-written, thorough, and comprehensive academic history of not only the Plunket Society, Karitane hospitals and nurses, but the entire spectrum of maternal and child welfare in 20th-century New Zealand.” –Julia Millen, New Zealand Books, on A Voice for Mothers: The Plunket Society and Infant Welfare 1907-2000

Professor Linda Bryder FRNZ teaches history at the University of Auckland and holds an honorary chair at the Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her books include A History of the ‘Unfortunate Experiment’ at National Women’s Hospital, A Voice for Mothers and Western Maternity and Medicine, 1880-1990.