Person

Gandevia, Bryan Harle (1925 - 2006)

Born
5 April 1925
Victoria, Australia
Died
2006
Occupation
Physician and Medical historian

Summary

Bryan Gandevia was Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Respiratory Medicine, Prince of Wales Hospital, University of New South Wales from 1963. He has written widely on the history and bibliography of Australian health and welfare measures.

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Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • Bryan Harle Gandevia - Records, 1970 - 1990, MS 057; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Books

  • Gandevia, B. H., The Melbourne Medical Students, 1862-1942 (Melbourne: Melbourne Medical Society, 1948). Details
  • Gandevia, B. H., An Annotated Bibliography of the History of Medicine in Australia (Sydney: Australasian Medical Publishing Co, 1957). Details
  • Gandevia, Bryan, Tears often shed: child health and welfare in Australia from 1788 (Rushcutters Bay, N.S.W.: Pergamon Press, 1978), 151 pp. Details
  • Gandevia, Bryan; Holster, Alison and Simpson, Sheila, An Annotated Bibliography of the History of Medicine and Health in Australia (Sydney: The Royal Australasia College of Physicians, 1984), 201 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Gandevia, B., 'Medicine and Health' in Australians, a Guide to Sources, D. H. Borchardt and Victor Crittenden, eds (Broadway: Fairfax, Syme & Weldon Associates, 1987), pp. 365-372. Details
  • Gandevia, Bryan, 'Neild, James Edward (1824-1906), forensic pathologist, drama critic, medical ediotr and journalist' in Geological Survey, South Australia, Quarterly Geological Notes, Douglas Pike, ed., vol. 5 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1974), pp. 327-329. Details
  • Gandevia, Bryan, 'Thomson, William (1819-1883), medical practitioner and epidemiologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 6: 1851 - 1890 R - Z, Bede Nairn, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1976), pp. 270-272. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060291b.htm. Details
  • Gandevia, Bryan, '"A-going for the greens"' in Plants and Man in Australia, Carr, D. J. and Carr, S. G. M., eds (Sydney: Academic Press, 1981), pp. 256-65. Details
  • Gandevia, Bryan, 'The Sir Edward Stirling Memorial Lecture: Reflections of Stirling's Presidential Addresses, and on Medical Historiography in South Australia' in Occasional Papers on Medical History Australia, Harold Attwood; Frank Forster and Bryan Gandevia, eds (Parkville: Medical History Society, A.M.A. [Victoria Branch] and Medical History Unit, University of Melbourne, 1984), pp. 59-84. Details
  • Gandevia, Bryan, 'Wettenhall, Roland Ravenscroft (1882-1965), dermatologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), pp. 451-452. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120505b.htm. Details
  • Gandevia, Bryan; McDonald, G. L., 'Walker, Allan Seymour (1887-1958), physician and medical historian' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), pp. 355-356. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120397b.htm. Details
  • Gandevia, Bryn, 'Beaney, James George (1828 - 1891), surgeon, politician and philanthropist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 3: 1851 - 1890 A-C, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1969), pp. 124-6, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/beaney-james-george-2959. Details
  • Heagney, Brenda; Gandevia, Bryan, 'James, Alexander Alexandrovich (1882-1976), medical practitioner' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 14: 1940 - 1980 Di-Kel, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996), pp. 552-553. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140626b.htm. Details

Conference Papers

  • Gandevia, Bryan, 'Australian Medico-Historical Bibliography and Bibliographies', in Medical Libraries - New Directions: Proceedings, Australian Medical Librarians' Conference (Melbourne: 1985), pp. 19-20.. Details
  • Gandevia, Bryan, 'Medicine in the Local Newspaper: the Early Australian Gazettes', in New Countries and Old Medicine: Proceedings of an International Conference on the History of Medicine and Health, Auckland, New Zealand, 1994 edited by Linda Bryder and Derek Dow (Auckland: Pyramid Press, 1994), pp. 178-183.. Details

Edited Books

  • Gandevia, B. ed., Bibiliography of Australian Medicine & Health Services to 1950, 4 vols (Canberra: A.G.P.S., 1988). Details

Journal Articles

  • Gandevia, B., 'Some aspects of the life and work of James George Beaney', Medical journal of Australia, 1 (2 May) (1953), 614-9. Details
  • Gandevia, B., 'Medico-legal crimes in nineteenth century Melbourne', Proceedings of the Medico-Legal Society, 9 (1963), 145-67. Details
  • Gandevia, B. and Clausen, U., 'James George Beaney: his authorship', Medical journal of Australia, 2 (3) (1981), 160. Details
  • Gandevia, B.; and Cobley, J., 'Mortality at Sydney Cove, 1788-1792', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine, 4 (1974), 111-25. Details
  • Gandevia, Bryan, 'A Review of Victoria's Early Medical Journals', Medical Journal of Australia (1952), 184-188. Details
  • Gandevia, Bryan, 'William Thomson and the History of the Contagonist Doctrine in Melbourne', Medical Journal of Australia (1953), 398-403. Details
  • Gandevia, Bryan, 'Land, Labour and Gold: the Medical Problems of Australia in the Nineteenth Century. The Jackson Lecture', Medical Journal of Australia (1960), 753-761. Details
  • Gandevia, Bryan, 'Medical history and its Australian environment', Medical journal of Australia (1967), 941-6. Details
  • Gandevia, Bryan, 'A history of general practice in Australia', Medical journal of Australia (1972), 381-5. Details
  • Gandevia, Bryan, 'The Contribution of a Specialist Historian to Social History, with Special Reference to Occupational Health', Australia 1938-1988: Bicentennial History Project, 3 (1982), 15-17. Details
  • Gandevia, Bryan, 'History: For Good or Ill?', Medical Journal of Australia, 161 (1) (1994), 5. Details
  • Gandevia, Bryan H., 'Natural History in Australia. A List of Historical Papers.', The Victorian naturalist, 73 (1956), 131-136. Details
  • Heagney, Brenda, 'Bryan Harle Gandevia', Health and History, 8 (2) (2006), 286-91. Details
  • Simpson, S.; and Gandevia, B., 'Andrew Arthur Abbie', Medical Journal of Australia, 1984:1 (8) (1984), 459-9. Details
  • Simpson, Sheila; Tovell, Ann; and Gandevia, Bryan, 'A bibliography of Australian paeditrics 1846 - 1900', Australian paediatric journal, 14 (1) (1978), 21-7. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1754.1978.tb02934.x. Details
  • Simpson, Sheila; Tovell, Ann; and Gandevia, Bryan, 'A bibliography of Australian paeditrics 1846 - 1900, part III', Australian paediatric journal, 15 (1) (1979), 20-32. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1754.1979.tb01178.x. Details
  • Thomas, Bryn; and Gandevia, Bryan, 'Dr Francis Workman, emigrant, and the history of taking the cure for compunption in the Australian colonies', Medical journal of Australia (1959), 1-10. Details
  • Tovell, A.; and Gandevia, B., 'Early Australian Medical Associations', Medical Journal of Australia (1962), 756-759. Details

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