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Spotlight: Interview with Dr Christine Ball (ABC Mornings)

The chatroom is turned into an operating theatre this morning as Virginia Trioli interviews Dr Christine Ball (ANZCA Fellow) about her book, The Chloroformist.

Christine Ball is an anaesthetist at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, co-manages a Master of Medicine (Perioperative) at Monash University, and is the 2020–2024 Wood Library-Museum Laureate of the History of Anesthesiology. She has been an honorary curator at the Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History for thirty years and is the author of many works in this field.

Interview with Dr Christine Ball

- First Broadcast: Mon 2 Aug 2021, 8:30am
- Time: Interview starts at 2.06:55

The Chloroformist by Dr Christine Ball Until 1846, surgery was performed without anaesthesia: extraordinary operations, carried out on conscious, terrified patients. Surgeons of that era were bold and courageous and saved many lives, but anaesthesia changed everything. With an unconscious patient, the surgeon could take his time. Surgery became slower, more careful and more delicate. And as anaesthesia removed the pain of surgery, the medical world gave more attention to surgical infection, heralding in the use of antiseptics and eventually aseptic surgery.
Call Number: 617.960942 BAL
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ISBN: 9780522877748
Publication Date: 3 August 2021

Spotlight: Purple Pen Podcast

Kristin Xenos chats to Dr Christine Ball aboutThe Chloroformistand Joseph Clover's contributions to anaesthesia in this episode of the Purple Pen Podcast.

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Spotlight: Ether/Or

Join host Dr Matthew Heron as he explores how the dark beginnings of anaesthesia led to a modern speciality with the safety of patients at its core.

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Bedside rounds Bedside Rounds is a medical podcast by myself Adam Rodman about fascinating stories in clinical medicine. He tells narrative stories, yes, and they’re often historical in nature. But they delve deep into our human connection with the past, and trace the intellectual, social, and cultural currents that have shaped modern medicine. At its core, Bedside Rounds is the story of how modern medicine — whatever that means — came to be.
Ether/Or Ether/Or is about the discovery of anaesthesia, and all its advantages. But it's also about the many problems that came with it. From failed attempts to fatal consequences, the introduction of anaesthesia in 1846 was a major leap forward for medicine and surgery. But it forced doctors and patients to grapple with the many new questions it raised. What did it mean to lay claim to a discovery? What if the pain of surgery was beneficial? And what if the anaesthetic was deadly? It's tempting to think that the problems of those early days of anaesthesia have been left well in the past, but if you listen carefully you'll realise the debates those first anaesthetists had still echo in our operating theatres today.
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Ockham's Razor episode featuring Dr John Crowhurst Podcast: "The legacy of anaesthesia at Pearl Harbor" on Sunday Extra: Ockham's Razor: Dr John Crowhurst spoke to ABC Radio National’s show Ockham’s Razor on November 27, 2016. He reached an audience of 90,000 people. Since May 2014, Dr Crowhurst’s full lecture, with many graphics including President Roosevelt’s “infamous” speech, and a video clip of a dramatised ether explosion, has been presented to 20 medical and non-medical groups in six countries. The final presentation will be made at the International Symposium on the History of Anaesthesia in Boston in October 2017.
Sawbones: a marital tour of misguided medicine Dr. Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin welcome you to Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine. Every Friday, they dig through the annals of medical history to uncover all the odd, weird, wrong, dumb and just gross ways we've tried to fix people over the years. Educational? You bet! Fun? We hope!
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