Linda Bryder is a professor of history at the University of Auckland, where she teaches 20th-century New Zealand history, with a particular focus on the history of social policy and health care. She is also an honorary professor at the Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and was an honorary visiting professor in the School of Law & Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University. She is the author of Below the Magic Mountain, A History of the 'Unfortunate Experiment' at National Women's Hospital, and A Voice for Mothers: The Plunket Society and Infant Welfare 1907-2000 and editor of A Healthy Country: Essays on the Social History of Medicine in New Zealand.