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PhD History University of New Zealand
Masters History University of New Zealand
Bachelors History University of New Zealand

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According to Wikipedia, Barbara Lesley Brookes is a New Zealand historian and academic. She specialises in women's history and medical history. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2022. Biography Brookes completed a bachelor's degree at the University of Otago in 1976, then won scholarships to Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, where she completed a master's degree and a PhD . Her PhD thesis topic was abortion in England during the inter-war period. Brookes was offered a post-doctoral scholarship at Otago and a permanent position in the university's Department of History in 1983.

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The Rationalization of Unethical Research: Revisionist Accounts of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the New Zealand "Unfortunate Experiment". (2015) (40)
A History of New Zealand Women (2016) (40)
Abortion in England 1900-1967 (1988) (37)
An “epidemic” of adolescent pregnancy? Some historical and policy considerations (1989) (32)
Women in History: Essays on European Women in New Zealand (1986) (24)
The Peckham Health Centre, “PEP”, and the concept of general practice during the 1930s and 1940s (1983) (23)
Sites of gender : women, men and modernity in Southern Dunedin, 1890-1939 (2004) (22)
The bedroom and the state: the changing practices and politics of contraception and abortion in Canada, 1880–1980 (1989) (21)
Constructing homes: gender and advertising in "Home and Building," 1936-1970. (1999) (12)
Housewives' depression: the debate over abortion and birth control in the 1930's. (1981) (12)
Gender, Work and Fears of a ‘Hybrid Race’ in 1920s New Zealand (2007) (12)
Nostalgia for ‘innocent homely pleasures’: The 1964 New Zealand Controversy over Washday at the Pa (1997) (11)
Hygiene, Health, And Bodily Knowledge, 1880-1940: A New Zealand Case Study (2003) (11)
Making girls modern: pakeha women and menstruation in New Zealand, 1930–70[1] (1998) (10)
A reassessment of the work of the Peckham Health Centre, 1926-1951. (1983) (10)
Abortion, doctors and the law: some aspects of the legal regulation of abortion in England from 1803 to 1982 (1990) (10)
At Home in New Zealand: History, Houses, People (2000) (10)
A Civilising Mission (2016) (10)
Māori and Pākehā Women: Many Histories, Divergent Pasts? (1992) (9)
Pictures of People, Pictures of Places: Photography and the Asylum (2012) (8)
Rethinking the Racial Moment: Essays on the Colonial Encounter (2011) (8)
Shame and Its Histories in the Twentieth Century (2010) (7)
Changing Times: New Zealand Since 1945 (2015) (7)
Women in history 2 (1992) (7)
A Corresponding Community: Dr Agnes Bennett and her Friends from the Edinburgh Medical College for Women of the 1890s (2008) (6)
Reproductive Rights: The Debate over Abortion and Birth Control in the 1930s (1986) (6)
Bureaucracy, archive files, and the making of knowledge (2018) (6)
Technology and gender: barbers and hairdressers in New Zealand, 1900–1970 (2009) (5)
Abortion then and now: New Zealand abortion stories from 1940 to 1980 [Book Review] (2011) (5)
Legal medicine in history: Rex v. Bourne and the medicalization of abortion (1994) (5)
The Quest for Citizenship (2016) (5)
Taking Private Life Seriously: Marriage and Nationhood (2003) (4)
"The glands of destiny:" hygiene, hormones and English women doctors in the first half of the 20th century. (2006) (4)
"Health Education Film and the Maori": Tuberculosis and the Maori People of the Wairoa District (1952) (2006) (4)
Women in History 2: Essays on Women in New Zealand (1992) (3)
Paul and Brookes Respond. (2016) (2)
Papering over madness: accountability and resistance in colonial asylum files: a New Zealand case study (2018) (2)
‘Aristocrats of Knowledge’: Māori Anthropologists and the Survival of the ‘Race’ (2018) (2)
Editorial: Introduction to History, Health, and Hybridity (2006) (2)
Mapping Out the Venereal Wilderness: Public Health and STD in New Zealand 1920–1980 (2008) (2)
The politics of medical administration II: Frederic Truby King and the Seacliff Asylum. (1990) (2)
The Politics of Knowledge: Anthropology and Māori Modernity in Mid-Twentieth-Century New Zealand (2013) (2)
Reply to Jill Matthews: New challenges for feminist history. (2003) (2)
Pacific Futures (2018) (1)
History, heritage, and colonialism: Historical consciousness, Britishness, and cultural identity in New Zealand, 1870–1940 by Kynan Gentry, and: Insanity, identity and empire: Immigrants and institutional confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873–1910 by Catharine Coleborne (review) (2017) (1)
‘Feminine as her Handbag, Modern as her Hairstyle’: The Uptake of the Contraceptive Pill in New Zealand (2023) (1)
Book Review:When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973 Leslie J. Reagan (1998) (1)
An illness in the family: Dr. Maude Abbott and her sister, Alice Abbott. (2011) (1)
The Making of a Controversy (2010) (1)
Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash: Britain, Ireland and Australia, 1890–1920 (2018) (1)
Quarantine for Venereal Disease: New Zealand 1915–1918 (2017) (1)
Bodily Subjects: Essays on Gender and Health, 1800–2000 (2015) (1)
With Them Through Hell: New Zealand Medical Services in the First World War by Anna Rogers (review) (2023) (1)
A home in this world? Provincial writers and the Puritan family (2000) (0)
Settling Pākehā Families, Unsettling Whānau (2016) (0)
Motherhood, Morality and a Voice for Women in the Inter-war Years (2016) (0)
Marti Friedlander by Leonard Bell (review) (2023) (0)
9. “Return of the Native”: Two Routes Back for a “Dying Race ” (2019) (0)
Breadwinning. New Zealand Women and the State by Melanie Nolan (review) (2023) (0)
Changing times: New Zealand since 1945 [Book Review] (2015) (0)
Styling Gender: From Barber Shops and Ladies’ Hairdressers to the Unisex Salon, 1920–1970 (2023) (0)
Agency of Hope: The Story of the Auckland City Mission, 1920–2020 by Peter Lineham (review) (2022) (0)
Mothers in the House: Iriaka Rātana and Whetū Tirikātene-Sullivan: Text, Contexts, Resonances (2023) (0)
Decade of Discovery, 1967–1977 (2016) (0)
New Expectations for a New Century (2016) (0)
On the Home Front: From Dependence to Independence (2016) (0)
Suburbia: Expansiveness and Confinement (2016) (0)
Book Reviews (2008) (0)
Book Review: Caroline Daly and Melanie Nolan (eds.), Suffrage and Beyond: International Feminist Perspectives (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1994), pp. xv, 368, $39.95 (paper) (1995) (0)
Maude Abbott's postgraduate studies in Europe, 1894-1897. (2009) (0)
Bank of Scotland Cashel Native Woodland Index. (2000) (0)
Books Received Sept 2014-August 2015. (2015) (0)
Origins, Traditions and ‘Civilisation’ (2016) (0)
Shaping the New Millennium (2016) (0)
Reckoning with Women (2016) (0)
Combining documentary and Oral sources: The Peckham Health Centre, London, 1926-1950 (1985) (0)
Angus Mclaren and Arlene Tigar Mclaren, The bedroom and the state: the changing practices and politics of contraception and abortion in Canada, 1880–1980 , The Canadian Social History Series, Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, 1986, 8vo, pp. 186, $14.95, (paperback). (1989) (0)
Jewish tradition in Arendt — or, for that matter in Cassirer — that brackets too heavily the consequential intellectual break that National Socialism (2016) (0)
War, Gold and Dispossession (2016) (0)
Which Barrier Was Broken? Broken Barrier and New Zealand Cinema in the 1950s (2023) (0)
Margaret Sparrow. Abortion Then & Now. New Zealand Abortion Stories from 1940 to 1980 (2011) (0)
Book Review: Derek A. Dow, Maori Health and Government Policy 1840-1940 (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1999), pp. 280, $39.95. Raeburn Lange, May the People Live: A History of Maori Health Development 1900-1920 (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1999), pp. 359, $39.95. (2001) (0)
Unfortunate Folk: Essays on Mental Health Treatment, 1863-1992 (2017) (0)
Into the Corridors of Power (2016) (0)
Contributors from the University of Otago (2013) (0)
TheRationalizationofUnethicalResearch:Revisionist AccountsoftheTuskegeeSyphilisStudyandthe NewZealand"UnfortunateExperiment" (2015) (0)
Abortion in England, 1900-1967. (1989) (0)
Maris A. Vinovskis, An “epidemic” of adolescent pregnancy? Some historical and policy considerations, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xix, 284, £22.50. (1989) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
The ‘Modern Woman’ of the Interwar Years (2016) (0)
An Official Investigation: The Birkett Committee (2012) (0)
Irish Women in Medicine, c.1880s–1920s: Origins, Education, and Careers by Laura Kelly (review) (2014) (0)
James Keating on suffrage sisterhood across the Tasman (2021) (0)
The new health service in New Zealand. (1989) (0)

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