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International conference

War wounds: medicine and the trauma of conflict

• Introduction
• Program
• Speakers
• Abstracts

Day 1	Thursday 24 September
8.00 am	Registration
9.00 am	Opening by The Hon. Alan Griffin MP, Minister for Veterans' Affairs
9.15 am	Keynote address: Shell shock and the shadow of the Great War Professor Jay Winter (Yale University)
10.30 am	Morning tea
Session 1	Medicine and casualties of the First World War
11.00 am	Chewing cordite: self-inflicted wounds among soldiers of the Great War Ashley Ekins (Australian War Memorial)
11.45 am	Scarred by war: medical responses to facially disfigured soldiers of the Great War Kerry Neale (University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy)
12.30 pm	Lunch
Session 2	Medical malpractice in war: the use and abuse of science
1.30 pm	Nazi human experiments and the replication of war wounds Professor Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University)
2.15 pm	“I have no words”: medical responses to the liberation of Nazi camps Dr Debbie Lackerstein (University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy)
3.00 pm	Afternoon tea
3.30 pm	The official history’s Agent Orange account: the veterans' perspective Graham Walker (Vietnam Veterans Federation of Australia)
4.15 pm	Agent Orange and the official history: an historian's perspective Dr Peter Edwards AM (Official historian of the Vietnam War)
5.00 pm	Close of day one
Day 2	Friday 25 September
Session 3	Medicine in a combat zone
9.00 am	A short walk in a minefield: a doctor’s experiences of mine casualties Dr Tony White AM
9.45 am	Surgery under fire: civilian surgical teams in Vietnam Libby Stewart (Australian War Memorial)
10.30 am	Morning tea
11.00 am	Diggers and a "dose of the clap": the problem of sexually transmitted infections among Australian soldiers in Vietnam Dr David Bradford AM
11.45 am	Military nursing in Afghanistan, 2008 Squadron Leader Sharon Cooper (Royal Australian Air Force)
12.30 pm	Lunch
Session 4	The aftermath and medical legacies
1.30 pm	The burdens of sacrifice: disabled soldiers and family life after the First World War Dr Marina Larsson (La Trobe University)
2.15 pm	Veterans’ health: the long term effects of war service on Australian veterans of conflicts in Korea, Vietnam and Iraq Dr Keith Horsley (Veterans’ health specialist)
3.00 pm	Afternoon tea
3.30 pm	Living with war wounds: a soldier’s view Graham Edwards (Vietnam veteran and former MP)
4.15 pm	Launch of the Bryan Gandevia Award for military history An Australian army doctor in Korea: reminiscences Professor Simon Gandevia (Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute)
5.00 pm	Closing address

 

This conference was convened by the Australian War Memorial.  The support of the Australian Government through the Department of Veterans’ Affairs is gratefully acknowledged.