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Jones. R.D. - Interview

Item number (ISN):

436387

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1977-05-13

Item number (ISN):

436387

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION / ASSOCIATION MÉDICALE CANADIENNE

Accession:

1980-0006

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1977-05-13

Production company:

Canadian Medical Association

Description:

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Interview of Dr. R.G. Jones, president of the Canadian Medical Association in 1965 and 1966. He speaks about such subjects as: his childhood in Digby, Nova Scotia; his father’s work as the station agent for the Dominion Atlantic Railway and later as the manager of the Canadian Pacific Hotels in the region; the Pines Hotel at Digby; his high school education in Bridgetown; his science studies at Dalhousie University; his decision to go to medical school; his graduation from medical school in 1937; Dr. H.B. Atlee; his going into the specialty of psychiatry; his job as a doctor on a government hospital ship which traveled each summer to the Newfoundland banks; his further training in Britain in internal medicine and psychology; Sir Aubrey Lewis; his work as a house officer at the Maudsley Hospital; leaving England for Baltimore where he began working Johns Hopkins University on a Rockefeller scholarship; working for Adolph Meyer; his return to Halifax in the fall of 1941 to set up the department of psychiatry at Dalhousie University; establishing a psychiatric service at the Victoria General Hospital in Halifax; opposition by some doctors to the establishment of psychiatric services in general hospitals; Dr. S.H. Prince, professor of sociology at King’s College; the National Committee for Mental Hygiene; the history of psychiatric medicine in Nova Scotia and pioneering efforts by people such as Hugh Bell; the Nova Scotia Medical Society; salaries paid to physicians for their teaching jobs; prominent doctors such as Charlie Roberts; F. Dunsworth; C.B. Farrar; Aldwyn Stokes; A.T. Mathers, Wilder Penfield, Ewan Cameron and Chick Stodgill; neurosurgery; the Federal Advisory Committee on Mental Health; the Canadian Association of Professors of Psychiatry; mental health services in the provinces; the Canadian Psychiatric Association; mental hospitals; government medical insurance; medicare; efforts to obtain medicare coverage for psychiatric patients; psychotherapy; social problems and socioeconomic class; his view that psychiatry should remain part of general medicine; significant improvements over his lifetime in the treatment of mental illness; the importance of medical treatment such as treatment with vitamin B; electroshock therapy; antipsychotic drugs; anxiety; his work with the Canadian Medical Association; disciplining the medical profession and the need for doctors to be accountable; continuing education for doctors and how to determine if doctors are keeping up to date; psychiatric illness among doctors; suicide; abortion; sterilization; euthanasia; the legalization of soft drugs; his hobbies; and the personal satisfaction he received through his work with the Canadian Medical Association.

Language:

English

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1. Subject description is a summary of transcript in collection file.

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Vault ISN:

563361

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1980-0006/13
1980-0006/14

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

R/R

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG
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MSS 24323

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