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Tony Hope

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Recollecting Oxford Medicine: Oral Histories
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Derek Hockaday interviews Tony Hope, Professor of Medical ethics and honorary consultant psychiatrist, 6 May 2014.
Topics discussed include: (00:00:16) first degree at Oxford prior to Medicine and early academic career; (00:06:58) physiology department, Oxford, and colleagues; (00:09:15) clinical years, including remembering Jim Holt; (00:12:34) interest in psychiatry during house jobs; (00:17:00) the Middlesex Hospital teaching compared to Oxford; (00:18:46) move into psychiatry, the Phoenix Unit at Littlemore Hospital; (00:22:00) diagnosis in psychiatry; (00:23:54) Cognitive Behavioural Therapy; (00:27:40) medical ethics, Sid Bloch, student society The Oxford Medical Forum, developing teaching practice skills in Oxford, change of ethical management of patients in the 1970s; (00:41:45) teaching role in ethics and communications; (00:47:25) assessing success of teaching ethics; (00:51:51) working on dementia; (00:56:55) interaction between hospital and community relating to psychiatry; (01:01:13) Oxford university lectureship; (01:06:58) setting up the Ethox Foundation; (01:09:31) clinical work from 2005 onwards; (01:12:38) ethics research including on anorexia nervosa; (01:18:29) changes in student interest in medical ethics; (01:20:47) publications; (01:21:53) the Oxford Medical Forum; (01:23:47) proudest contribution to clinical work; (01:25:35) final thoughts, the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:59:56-1:01:12 and 01:04:54-1:06:58.

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Recollecting Oxford Medicine: Oral Histories
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Tony Hope
Derek Hockaday
Keywords
Medicine
psychiatry
medical ethics
Department: Bodleian Libraries
Date Added: 24/08/2021
Duration: 01:28:26

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Peggy Frith

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Interview with Peggy Frith, deputy Director of Clinical Studies for Oxford University Medical School and consultant ophthalmologist, conducted by Derek Hockaday, 15 Sep 2015.
Topics discussed include: (00:00:18) why Frith came to Oxford for clinical training; (00:02:01) admissions procedure into Oxford Medical School; (00:04:19) time as a clinical student; (00:06:55) finals and surgical viva; (00:10:29) house jobs post qualification; (00:12:42) paediatric surgeon role; (00:17:29) role as senior house officer at Nuffield Department of Medicine and memories of colleagues; (00:18:48) neurology work; (00:20:25) move into ophthalmology; (00:26:29) setting up neuro-opthalmology clinic and training flexibly in London; (00:30:45) working at the Dragon House as housemasters wife; (00:31:38) Oxford Eye Hospital; (00:33:01) setting up a London clinic service for HIV patients with retinitis; (00:39:23) Oxford Eye Hospital; (00:46:02) moving across to University in role as deputy Director of Clinical Studies; (00:49:16) pastoral care of medical students; (00:57:46) most enjoyable experiences in career; (01:01:11) addressing sexism in medicine; (01:04:44) publications and national meetings; (01:06:16) dermatology and skin clinic links; (01:11:39) position at New College; (01:13:53) Athena Swan; (01:14:44) Tingewick society; (01:17:25) Oxford compared to other medical schools and hospitals around the country. Note the following section of audio is redacted: 01:00:10-01:00:39.

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Recollecting Oxford Medicine: Oral Histories
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Peggy Frith
Derek Hockaday
Keywords
Medicine
opthalmology
Department: Bodleian Libraries
Date Added: 24/08/2021
Duration: 01:21:02

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Andrew Freeland

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Derek Hockaday interviews Andrew Freeland, ENT consultant and surgeon, 22 May 2014
Topics discussed include: (00:00:10) starting in Oxford as a senior house surgeon in 1968 in ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgery, colleagues work and training at Guys Hospital; (00:04:00) Ronald Macbeth and Gavin Livingstone, history of ENT at the Radcliffe Infirmary during second world war and thalidomide disaster; (00:09:34) why Freeland applied for Oxford role; (00:10:15) research year in Banting institute, Toronto and laryngeal cancer work; (00:14:48) clinical students and teaching ENT; (00:16:19) Bill Lund; (00:19:50) deafness and cochlea implants; (00:23:00) private practice alongside day work (00:24:35) nursing in Oxford hospitals; (00:26:06) evolution of handling wax in the ears and hearing aid clinic; (00:28:46) honorary lecturing and students; (00:30:01) importance of anaesthetists; (00:31:44) Oxford tracheostomy tube; (00:33:09) tonsils; (00:35:45) ENT department; (00:39:17) committees; (00:40:30) changes in ENT medicine throughout career; (00:44:49) change in relationships between consultants and administrators; (00:50:00) future of medicine; (00:53:13) NHS in Oxford; (00:55:04) ENT conditions more common due to ageing population; (01:00:53) deciding to study medicine. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:01:22-00:01:37; 00:32:48-00:33:09; 00:38:27-00:39:16; 00:43:18-00:44:00; 00:54:48-00:54:52.

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Recollecting Oxford Medicine: Oral Histories
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Andrew Freeland
Derek Hockaday
Keywords
medical sciences
surgery
Department: Bodleian Libraries
Date Added: 23/08/2021
Duration: 01:01:47

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Godfrey Fowler

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Derek Hockaday interviews Godfrey Fowler, general practitioner and medical scientist, 7 Mar 2014
Topics discussed include: (00:00:09) admissions procedure to Oxford Medical School; (00:02:21) choosing to come to Oxford, early experiences at University College; (00:07:31) University College Hospital, London, for clinical training and then the return to Oxford as General Practitioner; (00:12:00) students in general practice; (00:14:54) role as a college doctor in Oxford; (00:23:23) case for a general practice post at Oxford University; (00:29:30) clinical students being sent out to general practices routinely; (00:31:12) research during readership post; (00:34:20) Bent Juel-Jensen and other colleagues; (00:40:57) publications; (00:42:49) successors to Fowler's chair of General Practice since 1996; (00:45:59) remaining a GP in Oxford throughout career; (00:47:12) Oxford hospitals and Oxford University as an institution; (00:49:12) involvement in national committees; (00:54:02) teaching small groups of clinical students; (00:56:05) health centres in central Oxford. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:25:39-00:25:51; 00:38:12-00:38:38; 00:43:26-00:43:39; 00:53:05-00:53:09.

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Recollecting Oxford Medicine: Oral Histories
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Godfrey Fowler
Derek Hockaday
Keywords
clinical medicine
primary healthcare
Department: Bodleian Libraries
Date Added: 23/08/2021
Duration: 00:59:14

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Pierre Foex

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Recollecting Oxford Medicine: Oral Histories
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Derek Hockaday interviews Pierre Foex, Emeritus Nuffield Professor of Anaesthetics, 21 November 2018.
Topics include: (00:00:12) coming to Oxford initially in 1970; (00:03:50) respiration unit at Churchill and the Radcliffe Infirmary; (00:05:20) Guillain-Barre and first case treated by temporary pace maker; (00:07:23) Dphil thesis on effect of carbon-dioxide on the heart and circulation; (00:10:38) research into beta blockers and anaesthesia; (00:13:00) relationship with the university; (00:16:07) teaching clinical students; (00:19:08) the Pain Clinic; (00:22:01) anaesthetic Dphil students; (00:26:07) moving from lecturer to professor to retired professor and university changes such as the Nuffield Benefaction including the field of grants; (00:31:20) relationships with surgeons, and memories of collaboration with Peter Morris as Nuffield Professor of Surgery; (00:40:51) working with the nurses and importance of nurses; (00:44:56) changes in fluid balance management throughout career; (00:49:07) differences in nursing between Geneva and Oxford; (00:50:50) balancing writing, lecturing, working and being involved on national scene as member of Council of the College of Anaesthetists and representative on the Oxford Radcliffe Trust Board; (01:00:24) interactions with Oxford relating to NHS university department; (01:05:30) comments on being in Oxford during first rate developments, impact of the Oxford Centre for Simulation at the John Radcliffe; (01:15:11) use of exercise electrocardiograms ECGs. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:23:31-00:24:39, 00:55:42-00:56:19; 00:58:05-01:00:24.

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Recollecting Oxford Medicine: Oral Histories
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Pierre Foex
Derek Hockaday
Keywords
medical sciences
anaesthetics
Department: Bodleian Libraries
Date Added: 23/08/2021
Duration: 01:16:49

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Derek Hockaday

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Recollecting Oxford Medicine: Oral Histories
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Peggy Frith interviews Derek Hockaday, 24 Sep 2020
Topics discussed include: (00:00:22) context of interviewing Derek Hockaday, thoughts on the recollecting oxford medicine interviews in general; (00:01:40) getting into medicine, first contact with the Radcliffe Infirmary as a patient in 1946, school days; (00:03:46) time at Brasenose college, Oxford in 1947; (00:05:30) George Gordon and increasing terms tutored in physiology; (00:06:55) research in physiology; (00:07:55) being drawn to clinical medicine; (00:08:42) BSc research work; (00:11:10) clinical training in the Middlesex Hospital; (00:13:31) anecdotes about clinical student visits; (00:15:15) medical finals; (00:16:10) Wheatley Military Hospital; (00:17:59) discussing Hugh Cairns and Cairns hospital for head injuries; (00:19:48) George Pickering, Ian Bush and chemical investigations into psychiatric patients; (00:24:00) angiography patients at Wheatley, angiography pre scanning; (00:26:59) George Pickering; (00:28:22) Cambridge pre-clinical students coming to train clinically at Oxford; (00:29:38) year in Boston, Massachusetts endocrine unit at the Mass. General Hospital; (00:35:20) returning from America to Oxford, becoming a consultant; (00:39:37) the Oxford Diabetic Clinic, introduction of dialysis to Oxford; (00:43:24) wards and firms looking after patients; (00:44:13) hutted wards; (00:45:06) teaching and lecturing of clinical students; (00:45:50) medical tutor 1980 at Brasenose; (00:48:09) training diabetologists including George Alberti; (00:51:13) Sheffield speciality in Renal medicine, influence of Ranjan Yajnik on diabetic medicine in India; (00:52:57) figures involved in Oxford research in diabetes; (00:54:43) diabetic coma treatments research trials; (01.01:33) contact bedside testing; (01.02:33) inception of, and effect of Sheikh Rashid Diabetes Unit, Oxford; (01:10:16) the fifth principle of physiology; (01:11:10) randomised trial on diabetic treatments and Richard Doll; (01:12:10) side effect of alcohol flushing; (01:15:04) medical administration; (01.23:25) sport; (01:28:14) final thoughts including clinical appointment times, praising nursing profession and first ward round as consultant. Note the following sections are redacted: 00:33:21-00:33:43; 00:40:35-00:41:54; 001:12:47-01:12:56.

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Recollecting Oxford Medicine: Oral Histories
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Derek Hockaday
Peggy Frith
Keywords
medical sciences
endocrinology
Department: Bodleian Libraries
Date Added: 23/08/2021
Duration: 01:32:36

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Julian Britton

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Derek Hockaday interviews Julian Britton, surgeon and former Director of Clinical Studies for Oxford Medical School, 23 Jan 2019.
Topics discussed include: (00:00:10) deciding to come to Oxford; (00:03:18) going to Newport as a senior registrar; (00:06:00) thoughts when first arriving at Oxford, surgeons, memories of Ted Maloney; (00:11:26) leaving the Nuffield Department of Surgery and applying for professorship; (00:12:34) research whilst in the Nuffield Department of Surgery and with the haematology department, Cardiff; (00:15:30) impressions of the Radcliffe Infirmary nursing and facilities when arriving from Newport; (00:19:04) time as Director of Clinical Studies at Oxford in 1983; (00:26:02) interest and training in keyhole surgery and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography; (00:32:24) liver surgery; (00:37:11) the development of ultrasound, use particularly with jaundiced patients; (00:41:13) nursing changes and the Salmon report; (00:42:22) medical administration changes; (00:52:23) private practice; (00:54:18) surgical departments, surgeon colleagues; (01:01:40) publications; (01:04:37) laparoscopic repair; (01:06:35) holidays and hobbies; (01:09:11) training up junior staff in surgeries; (01:11:06) Green Templeton college and The Radcliffe Committee, time as the Vice-Warden of the college; (01:17:30) portraits of John Walton; (01:22:20) final thoughts including changing opinion of arts subjects and how they help in medical career, Alex Gatherer, Peter Morris and David Weatherall; (01:33:25) grand rounds of endoscopic and laparoscopc surgeries. Note that the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:11:57-00:12:20; 01:18:06-01:18:25; 01:27:25-01:28:00; 01:31:04-01:32:45.

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Recollecting Oxford Medicine: Oral Histories
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Julian Britton
Derek Hockaday
Keywords
medical sciences
surgery
Department: Bodleian Libraries
Date Added: 23/08/2021
Duration: 01:35:51

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Queer Andromeda

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Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD Podcast
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A podcast with Hannah Greenstreet and Charlotte Vickers
Hannah Greenstreet and Charlotte Vickers are, respectively, the writer and director of the TORCH-funded project Andromeda - a queer retelling of Euripides' lost play. Recorded ahead of a full production at Camden People's Theatre, Hannah and Charlotte discuss the project, its process, and the importance of centring queer experience in storytelling. Introduced by Giovanna Di Martino, and produced by Giovanna Di Martino and Claire Barnes. Recorded in July 2021.

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Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD Podcast
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Hannah Greenstreet
Charlotte Vickers
Keywords
andromeda
queer
queer studies
Euripides
classical reception
theatre
performance
acting
greek tragedy
ancient greek tragedy
Department: Faculty of Classics
Date Added: 20/08/2021
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A Bread Factory

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Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD Podcast
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A podcast with Patrick Wang and Michael Lippman.
Writer and director Patrick Wang is interviewed by Michael Lippman (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), about his 2018 two-part film, A Bread Factory. Telling the story of a community arts centre and the individuals whose lives are intertwined with it, A Bread Factory incorporates scenes and motifs from Greek tragedy as the art centre puts on a performance of Euripides' Hecuba. Introduced by Claire Barnes, and produced by Giovanna Di Martino and Claire Barnes. Recorded in June 2021.

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Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD Podcast
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Patrick Wang
Mike Lippman
Keywords
film making
film studies
directing
screenplay
theatre
performance
acting
greek tragedy
ancient greek tragedy
Department: Faculty of Classics
Date Added: 20/08/2021
Duration: 00:43:19

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Mansfield hosts a lively and engaging series of free public talks, every Friday, during Oxford University term time. The Mansfield Public Talks are convened by College Principal, Helen Mountfield QC, and platform leading figures from varied fields, aimed at opening up ideas and debate in front of a wide audience. The talks are open to all and as such are an important element of the College’s public engagement efforts.

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