Presentation ceremony at the NAPCRG 2024 Annual Meeting, Québec City, Canada
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Advocate for People – MedicsVoices Interview
While visiting Dublin in September, Felicity was interviewed by Domhnall MacAuley for his podcast MedicsVoices.
Community funding needed to preserve Dacre history
First published on June 18th at Localmatters.
Felicity Goodyear-Smith has almost completed a comprehensive history of Dacre Cottage and the Weiti Block that took a year of research. But funding is needed to get it on the shelves.
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Advocacy is not justice: diagnosing child abuse
First published at openinquiry.nz August 16, 2023
Felicity Goodyear-Smith
Child abuse paediatricians are doctors trained in diagnosing child abuse. They advocate for abused and neglected children and for programmes to prevent child mistreatment, and they consider whether conditions bringing children into hospital might have been caused by abuse. However there are situations where over-zealous paediatricians, in the desire to protect children, wrongly equate specific physical findings as evidence of abuse, with devastating consequences to children and their families.
Shaken baby syndrome needs a rethink
FIRST PUBLISHED JUL 16, 2023 at Newsroom
Felicity Goodyear-Smith is a professor in general practice at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland.
SOCIAL ISSUES
Shaken baby syndrome needs a rethink
The term Abusive Head Trauma (Shaken Baby Syndrome) presupposes an action with malicious intent. These emotive labels should have no place masquerading as a medical diagnosis.
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Ingenio Autumn 2023 review of From Crime to Care
The autumn 2023 University of Auckland alumni magazine included a review by Jodie Yeats of ‘From Crime to Care – the History of Abortion in Aotearoa New Zealand’.
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All the ways you didn’t know you could catch ‘The Clap’ (it’s not just sex)
by Annemarie Quill
First published on Stuff 05:25, May 03 2023
Gonorrhoea can be spread by kissing without any sexual activity, experts say (file photo).
A sexually transmitted disease on the rise in Aotearoa, commonly referred to as ‘the clap’, can be caught from kissing, shared towels and even flies.
And government health advice, which says it can only be transmitted via sexual activity, needs to be updated, experts say.
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Covid in NZ – MedicsVoices Interview
Here is how New Zealand was so successful with COVID-19. Interview for Medics Voices podcast.
From Crime to Care
From Crime to Care: the History of Abortion in Aotearoa New Zealand – book launch
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My latest book From Crime to Care will be launched at at 6 pm Thursday 9th February in the Atrium of the Auckland Medical School (Faculty of Medical & Health Science), 85 Park Road Grafton
From Crime to Care presents the history of abortion in Aotearoa New Zealand from pre-colonial times to the present, weaving in stories and experiences from key people on both sides of the debate. After the first abortion clinic opened in 1974 there were protests and pickets, and the issue shaped our politics in the 1970s. Moral crusaders, activists, legislators, abortion-providers and many others put their reputations and sometimes their lives on the line to do what they thought was right.
The abortion struggle serves as an illustration of our changing political and social landscape, with a public move from conservative towards more liberal values. Finally, after 180 years, abortion in Aotearoa is a health rather than a criminal concern. However, the issue continues to divide people, and events in the United States have shown how quickly change can occur, with their Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade and several states banning abortions.
Retail price $39.95, publishing 9 February 2023 ISBN: 978-0-473-66306-03 F
Format: 229 x 152 mm (portrait), 254 pages, paperback plus 12 pages of black & white images (insert)
Nationwide Book Distributors www.nationwidebooks.co.nz