Dame Josephine Barnes, the first ever woman president of the British Medical Association, discusses with Sir Gordon Wolstenholme her family and educational background, particularly life as a medical student at Oxford, 1930-34 and University College Hospital (UCH), London, 1934-37, including the main influences of her teaching particularly that of Alice Carleton and F. J. Browne. She then talks of early appointments (1937-40) at Windsor, Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, UCH and the Mundesley Sanatorium, Norfolk. Early experiences in obstetrics and gynaecology in Oxford and London are reviewed, followed by outlines of her career as a consultant particularly at the Charing Cross Hospital. The conversation reviews advances and changing challenges in a field responding to abortion legislation and increasing medical litigation. Also mentioned: the services of a pre-National Health Service Public Dispensary in York in 1932, the Todd and Lane Committees, a 'flying squad' providing emergency midwifery services in London in the 1940s and 50s, developments and challenges in midwifery in First and Third World arenas since the 1960s.
Midwifery at University College Hospital London, 1934-37, developments in obstetrics and gynaecology 1940-1990, UK abortion legislation, Third World midwifery, the Todd and Lane Committees.
Obstetrics,
vid-256, MSVA_044
Permanent link to this resource: https://doi.org/10.24384/000427
Barnes, JosephineWolstenholme, Gordon
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Original artefact: 1989 RADAR resource: 2017
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