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Title
Date(s)
- 1950-1993 (Creation)
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Collection
Extent and medium
29 boxes
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Douglas Gordon was born on April 19 1911 and graduated from the University of Queensland's Faculty of Medicine in June 1942. During World War Two, he served as a Medical Officer to RAAF airfield construction squadrons in the Dutch East Indies. After the war, he spent 10 years as head of Industrial Hygiene in the Queensland State Health Department before becoming the first full-time professor of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Queensland in 1957. He was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine from 1962 to 1967. He published extensively, both in the areas of social and preventive medicine and in medical history. He retired in 1976 and died in October 1993.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1950-1993
Collection alternatively titled as: Douglas Gordon Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Papers, journal articles, newspaper clippings and correspondence related to Prof. Douglas Gordon's medical career and his interest in Queensland's medical history.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
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Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
Script of material
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Finding aids
Uploaded finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
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Publication note
Material in this collection has been cited in:
Byrnes, Cassandra (2022). Conservative sex: a history of abortion, contraception, and sexual health in Queensland, 1960-1989 . PhD Thesis, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland. doi.org/10.14264/d4fc2cf
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Access points
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Name access points
- Nye, L. J. J. (Leslie John Jarvis), 1891-1976 (Subject)
- University of Queensland Faculty of Medicine (Subject)
- Gordon, Douglas, 1911- (Subject)
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Status
Migrated
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.