Collection UQFL360 - Douglas Gordon Papers

Identity area

Reference code

UQFL360

Title

Douglas Gordon Papers

Date(s)

  • 1950-1993 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

29 boxes

Context area

Name of creator

(1911-1993)

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.

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

Accruals

System of arrangement

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Unrestricted access.

Conditions governing reproduction

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

Language and script notes

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Finding aids

Uploaded finding aid

Allied materials area

Existence and location of originals

Existence and location of copies

Related units of description

Other papers by Douglas Gordon on medical history are held at F2231 and F2336.

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

Notes area

Alternative identifier(s)

Alma MMS ID

991006130389703131

Millennium Local System Number

b21091109

Libraries Australia ID

63020406 ; 45226918

OCLC Number

505956905

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Rules and/or conventions used

Status

Migrated

Level of detail

Dates of creation revision deletion

Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.

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Accession area