AUDIO
Interview with Dr Shirley Dowding
- Date
- 25 Nov 1990 - 25 Nov 1995
- By
- Dowding, Shirley (Dr), 1920-
- Reference
- OHInt-0019/07
- Description
Dr Shirley Dowding describes family background, education, life in Te Karaka, private education at Woodford House, Otago Medical School - St Margaret's College, attitude to women medical students, travel to Dunedin during wartime, being manpowered to base hospitals at East Cape, diseases, treatments, duties. Recalls entering general practice at Te Karaka succeeding Dr Gordon Ellis, importance of general practice in Te Karaka with lack of hospials in area, also that of Plunket and district nurses and cooperation with them, health practices of large Maori population, transport in rural East Cape, need to function as accident and emergency clinic because of bad roads, later life in Gisborne.
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Venue - Gisborne
Interviewer(s) - Elaine Barron
Venue - Gisborne
Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004291
Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 Hours Duration.
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- Additional description
Original recordings not available for playback. Surrogate copies will be provided.
- Use/Reproduction
- Restricted Copyright: Held by New Zealand Women's Medical Association
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted material
- Part of
- New Zealand Medical Women's Association: Records / Oral histories of NZ Medical Women Graduates
- Format
- 1 C60 cassette(s), 1 Hours Duration, Oral histories
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Interview with Dr Shirley Dowding, tape one
Date: 25 Nov 1990
From: New Zealand Medical Women's Association: Records
Reference: OHC-004291
Description: Interviewer(s) - Elaine Barron Arrangement: Tape sequence - 1 of 1 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).