David Thorne interviewed by Heather Rusden for the Australian response to AIDS oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 655509
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Thorne, David, 1949-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research; written permission required for public use.
- Description:
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- 1993 Sept. 30
- 2 digital audio tapes (ca. 175 min.)
- Series:
- Australian response to AIDS oral history project.
- Summary:
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Dr David Thorne, Director, Western Palliative Care Service, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, South Australia and former Chairperson, AIDS Trust of Australia, speaks of his medical background; palliative care; attitudes to dying at home; development of a community hospice program, South Australia; first awareness of AIDS as a disease; Aust. Gay Medicine Association; AIDS testing; initial gay community response to AIDS; development of SA AIDS organisations; government policy; Cornwall; medical profession/health worker attitudes to the disease; discrimination; AIDS phobia; first admission of an AIDS patient to hospice; CARA home support; attitudes to homosexuality; AFAO; AIDS Trust of Australia; AIDS fundraising & sponsorship; Commonwealth Dept. of Health-AFAO relations; Blewett; contrast in US & Aust. responses to the disease; Baume report; directions for AIDS management; work with AIDS patients Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal; resistance to AIDS patients in traditional palliative care hospices; Philip Kennedy Hospice; interaction between AIDS & other hospice patients; lack of contact between palliative & AIDS care overseas; differences in AIDS & cancer grieving.
- 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 Adelaide, S.A. on 30 September 1993.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Uncorrected transcript (typescript, 30 leaves).
- Subject:
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- Thorne, David, 1949- -- Interviews
- Western Palliative Care Service (Adelaide, S.A.)
- AIDS Trust of Australia
- Physicians -- South Australia -- Adelaide -- Interviews
- AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Care -- South Australia -- Adelaide
- AIDS (Disease) -- Palliative treatment
- AIDS (Disease) -- Government policy -- Australia
- HIV infections -- Social aspects
- Hospice care -- South Australia -- Adelaide
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This belongs to the Australian response to AIDS oral history project.
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- Creation date:
- 1993
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