3 - Interview with Claude Field

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3 - Interview with Claude Field

Transcript of an interview conducted by Dr Susan Mullaney with Dr Claude Field, a retired paediatrician. In the interview Dr Field talks about a wide range of topics, including: - his education; - experiences in the British Navy during the Second World War; - time spent in Durban, South Africa, at the end of the war; - the involvement of his wife, Dorita, in social causes and politics; - time spent working as a paediatrician in the City Hospital, Belfast; - the beginnings of specialisation; - the polio epidemic in Belfast in the late 1940s; - common diseases in the 1940s and 1950s,such as rheumatic fever, scarletina, measles, and tuberculosis; - the introduction of streptomycin and penicillin; - social changes over the course of his life; - memories of thalilomide; - children and grandchildren; - social life; - religion and the medical profession in Northern Ireland.