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1 online resource (27 min.) |
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Australasian video online |
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Medical Specialist. Born Johannesburg, South Africa, 1926. When the eminent kidney specialist Priscilla Kincaid-Smith first arrived in Melbourne in 1959 she was in for a serious shock. Her plan to practise as a researcher and clinician in her chosen field came up against the Australian edict that barred married women from being appointed to such positions. Kincaid-Smith's medical ambitions had been formed during her idealistic youth in South Africa, and a brilliant postgraduate career in one of London's leading teaching hospitals, where her gender had proved no impediment. But in the Australia of the early 1960s she found that the expectation that married women should not work outside the home had the backing of her entire social circle. Only her husband Ken Fairley, also a kidney specialist, supported her struggle for recognition. Determined to continue with her elected profession and make use of her medical training, Kincaid-Smith battled sexism within the medical establishment to become a world-renowned medical specialist and professor. She discovered the link between kidney disease and APC analgesics such as Bex and Vincent's. She became the first female President of the International Society of Nephrology and the first to hold a Chair of any kind at the University of Melbourne. She was also the first woman President of the Australian College of Physicians and of the World Medical Association. She has raised three children, spoken out on many controversial issues and influenced the treatment of kidney disease throughout the world. In this refreshingly frank and forthright interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith reveals the personal qualities that brought her spectacular success and enabled her to contribute so effectively to the wider community against powerful opposition |
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Title from resource description page (viewed November 3, 2014) |
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In English |
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Kincaid-Smith, Priscilla, 1926-
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Kincaid-Smith, Priscilla, 1926- fast (OCoLC)fst00036534 |
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Physicians -- Australia -- Interviews
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Physicians -- Australia -- Biography
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Women as physicians -- Australia
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Women's rights -- Australia
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Physicians.
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Women's rights.
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Australia.
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Biographies.
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Documentary films.
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Interviews.
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Documentary films.
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Documentaires.
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Streaming video
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Hughes, Robin.
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