Linda Bryder is a professor of history at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and holds an honorary chair at the Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She completed her DPhil in the history of science at the University of Oxford in 1985 and was founder editor of the Oxford journal Social History of Medicine. She is the author of A History of the ‘Unfortunate Experiment’ at National Women’s Hospital (AUP and Palgrave, 2009) and A Voice for Mothers: The Plunket Society and Infant Welfare 1907–2000 (AUP, 2003); editor of A Healthy Country: Essays on the Social History of Medicine in New Zealand (Bridget Williams, 1991); and joint editor with Janet Greenlees of Western Maternity and Medicine, 1880–1990 (Pickering & Chatto, 2013). Bryder has served as president of the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine and the New Zealand Historical Association, and she is also a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Linda Bryder is a professor of history at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and holds an honorary chair at the Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She completed her DPhil in the history of science at the University of Oxford in 1985 and was founder editor of the Oxford journal Social History of Medicine. She is the author of A History of the ‘Unfortunate Experiment’ at National Women’s Hospital (AUP and Palgrave, 2009) and A Voice for Mothers: The Plunket Society and Infant Welfare 1907–2000 (AUP, 2003); editor of A Healthy Country: Essays on the Social History of Medicine in New Zealand (Bridget Williams, 1991); and joint editor with Janet Greenlees of Western Maternity and Medicine, 1880–1990 (Pickering & Chatto, 2013). Bryder has served as president of the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine and the New Zealand Historical Association, and she is also a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.