John Armstrong interviewed by Stuart Reid for the Australian response to AIDS oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2178075
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Armstrong, John (John Anthony), 1927-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research and personal copies; written permission required for public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 1993 Nov. 26
- 5 tape reels (ca. 153 min.) ; 7 in.
- Series:
- Australian response to AIDS oral history project.
- Summary:
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Dr John Armstrong, retired pathologist and AIDS researcher, reflects on his HIV research at Royal Perth Hospital, including: his medical background; electron microscopy research; first awareness of AIDS as a disease; presentation of first AIDS cases at RPH; lymph node analysis; locating retrovirus type cells; contrast in in vivo and in vitro research findings; dendritic cells; sereological testing; non-lymphocytic cell tropism theory; research funding; interaction between retrovirus and dendritic cells; Human Immunodeficiency Virus; prospects for an HIV vaccine; Western Australian AIDS Advisory Committee; place of his research in international AIDS research; lesions; breast milk transmission of the virus; testing issue; attitude of Hospital administration and staff to AIDS research; clinical precautions; autopsy policy; media reporting of AIDS; origins of the disease; alternative findings of HIV research.
- 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 at Kalamunda, W.A. on 26 November 1993.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Uncorrected transcript (typescript, 65 leaves).
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This belongs to the Australian response to AIDS oral history project.
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