John Dwyer interviewed by Stewart Harris for the Australian response to AIDS oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 647914
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Dwyer, John M, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Written permission required for research, personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 1993 Sept. 14
- 3 tape reels (ca. 101 min.) ; 7 in.
- Series:
- Australian response to AIDS oral history project.
- Summary:
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Professor John Dwyer, Clinical Director, Prince of Wales Hospital and member of NACAIDS, speaks of his medical background; AIDS research, Yale University; early theories regarding the disease's transmission; discrimination against HIV positive persons in the United States; American response to the disease; AIDS & the media; his involvement in the Australian response to AIDS; NACAIDS; AIDS & New South Wales prisons; Yabsley; AIDS Task Force; Blewett; Grim Reaper campaign; gay community response to the disease; projection for spread of HIV in Australia; AIDS & Asia; and comments on the contributions of other individuals in the Australian response to AIDS.
- Notes:
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- Part of a project undertaken jointly by the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations and the National Library of Australia focussing on the social and political response in Australia to AIDS.
- Recorded in Sydney, N.S.W. on 14 September 1993.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Related Material:
- Portrait of Professor John Dwyer, Clinical Director, Prince of Wales Hospital and member of NACAIDS, 1993?; located at; National Library of Australia Pictures collection PIC P530/31 LOC Portraits box D
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Corrected transcript (typescript, 37 leaves) available.
- Subject:
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- Dwyer, John M -- Interviews
- Australia. National Advisory Committee on AIDS
- Immunologists -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Interviews
- AIDS (Disease) -- Government policy -- Australia
- HIV infections -- Australia -- Prevention
- HIV infections -- New South Wales -- Prevention
- Prisoners -- Health and hygiene -- New South Wales
- HIV infections -- Social aspects
- Other authors/contributors:
- Related Records:
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