| Description | 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. |