Interpretations of the legacy of Kartini in post-Suharto Indonesia.
Kartini (1879-1904) was a Javanese princess and is acclaimed as Indonesia’s first feminist and a national heroine. Petra investigated how Kartini’s writings and personal history are being reinterpreted in Indonesia since the fall of President Suharto in 1998. She drew on the Library’s extensive collection of Indonesian national and regional newspapers and published works.
Norman McCann Summer Scholars
Elizabeth Todd,
“Pain, Anaesthesia and the Clinical Encounter in the second half of the nineteenth century in Australia and Great Britain”.
Elizabeth was studying the individual experience of anaesthesia in the clinical encounter – the experiences of the patient, the doctor and those witnessing the procedure, such as family, medical students or newspaper journalists. She used medical casebooks and journals, hospital reports, personal papers, manuscripts and medical periodicals. Her aim was to understand the relationship between doctors and patients, and the ways in which anaesthesia mediated these relationships after its introduction in the mid-1840s.