Collection search - [Centennial of the Dalhousie Medical School]

WHITELAW, Marjory

1978-0022

Sound

1 of 1

1967-09

Comments of various unidentified doctors for a radio program about the Centennial of the Dalhousie Medical School. Comments of a woman doctor about: women, women trainings, her experiences as a medical student at Dalhousie University in 1932. Comments of various unidentifiable doctors about: health, the early days of medicine, specialisation in medicine, need for knowledge outside speciality, medicine and the law, medicine and engineering, general practitioners, experiences as interns, need for doctors in Atlantic Canada, problems of diagnoses before x-rays, country doctors in the nineteenth century, nineteenth century medicine, childbirth in the nineteenth century, problems of financing medical schools. Recording is accompanied by a reading from early newspaper account of the opening of Dalhousie Medical School in 1868. <30mn>

English

Open

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions