Chaplaincy in the Royal Brisbane Hospitals. The genesis and evolution of hospital chaplaincy in a Queensland hospital complex.

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CHAPLAINCY IN THE ROYAL BRISBANE HOSPITALS The genesis and evolution of hospital chaplaincy in a Queensland hospital complex John Hemsley Pearn A Thesis submitted as fulfilment for the Degree of Master of Philosophy School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics The University of Queensland June 2010 ABSTRACT This thesis is an account of the genesis and evolution of the developed discipline of hospital chaplaincy in the Herston Hospitals complex, Brisbane. This multihospital campus comprises the hospitals of the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and the Royal Children’s Hospital and their predecessors. The Brisbane Hospital was founded in 1867 as a charity hospital. Since that time it has formed the epicentre of an extending healthcare campus where more than 300 chaplains have provided solace and sacraments, conducted rites and offered counsel to hundreds of thousands of inpatients. Their history and the history of hospital chaplaincy more generally has hitherto been unrecorded

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