Person
Moran, Herbert Michael (1885 - 1945)
- Born
- 26 April 1885
Darlington, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 20 November 1945
Cambridge, England - Occupation
- Surgeon
Summary
Herbert Moran was a surgeon and the father of Patrick Alfred Pierce Moran. Herbert Moran was a surgeon and the father of Patrick Alfred Pierce Moran. For much of his career he was associated with leading hospitals in Sydney. His principal interest was in the treatment of cancer and he was noted for his experimental application of radium and radiation therapy for cancer treatment. Moran was also a prolific writer on the subject, both for the medical profession and for the general public. He was concerned particularly with the need for education on the symptoms and treatments for the disease.
Details
Chronology
- 1907
- Education - MB, University of Sydney
- 1907 - 1908
- Career position - Resident Medical Officer, Newcastle Hospital, New South Wales
- 1908
- Career position - Captain of first Australian rugby team to tour the United Kingdom
- 1909
- Education - Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh
- 1910 - 1915
- Career position - In general practice, Balmain and Macquarie St, Sydney, New South Wales
- 1915 - 1916
- Career position - Served with the Royal Army Medical Corps
- 1916 -
- Career position - Honorary surgeon, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney
- 1929
- Education - ChM, University of Sydney
- 1932
- Career position - Member, New South Wales Medical Board
- 1935
- Life event - Moved to Italy
- 1940 - 1945
- Career position - Served with the Royal Army Medical Corps
Related entries
Children
Published resources
Books
- Moran, Herbert M., Viewless winds: being the recollections and digressions of an Australian surgeon (London: Peter Davies, 1939), 352 pp. Details
- Moran, Herbert M., In my fashion: an autobiography of the last ten years (London: P. Davies, 1946), 310 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Walsh, G. P., 'Moran, Herbert Michael (1885-1945), surgeon' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 576-577. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100562b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Thoeming, Anne, 'Patients, practice and policy: genre and Dr Moran's cancer writing', Health and History, 21 (1) (2019), 24-44. https://www/jstor.org/stable/10.5401/healthhist.21.1.0024. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15442765. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/55760690. Details
- 'Moran, H M (1885-1945)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-512191. Details
Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 6 October 2023
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