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Zealand Obstetrical Society (which became the New Zealand Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society (NZOGS) in 1935) and was its secretary for many years. The Society promoted its aims for better recognition of the practice of obstetrics through meetings, lecture tours, scholarships and liaison with the Department of Health. Its view was that births should be attended by a doctor and midwife or doctor and maternity nurse rather than the midwifery led system for births as doctors were needed to administer pain relief. While she had been opposed to state control in medicine and midwifery she applauded the Labour government's midwifery service introduced in 1938. The service included free hospital deliveries and 14 days' rest in hospital after the birth.
338:, a New Zealand reproductive rights advocate and doctor. Sparrow wrote that Gordon's upbringing and personal beliefs meant that she did not challenge the medical profession's negative views of contraception and abortion. She did not accept the advantages of preventing unplanned pregnancies and how birth control could improve the lives of ordinary women. She approved of contraception only if medically necessary, not for economic reasons. But she did advocate for sterilisation for women with poor health who had already had multiple pregnancies. In Sparrow's view her attitudes were pronatalist, racist and eugenicist and disapproving of the emancipation of women. Gordon co-authored a book, with anaesthetist and physician
353:(NCW) established the Doris Gordon Memorial Trust and Fund to commemorate Gordon's work and to further the study and teaching and practice of obstetrics and gynaecology. In 1963 Robert Hawksworth gave the First Doris Gordon Memorial Oration in New Plymouth. During the 1990s, when maternity care was transferred from general practitioners to midwives, the O&G Society and Doris Gordon Memorial Trust became inactive but the Trust Fund remained.
268:. Arguments for postgraduate training and a dedicated hospital included the inability of Queen Mary Hospital to train undergraduates as well as postgraduates, the need to provide training in New Zealand because of the war and to attract overseas trained specialists back to the country. A Postgraduate School of Obstetrics and Gynaecology was set up at
153:(10 July 1890 – 9 July 1956) was a New Zealand doctor, obstetrician, university lecturer and women's health reformer. She was known as 'Dr Doris', famous for her work in rural general practice, for raising the status of obstetrics, improving obstetrics education of medical students and doctors, and working for the welfare of mothers and children.
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Zealand specialists back to the country. The NZOGS had been awarding scholarships for postgraduate training and advocating for a hospital to provide postgraduate training. Gordon commenced
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Department of Health for control of obstetrics. She believed all births should take place in hospital and that mothers should be supervised by medical practitioners during pregnancy and postnatally. In 1927 she founded
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Memorial Trust to use the funds for an annual Doris Gordon Memorial Lecture. The inaugural lecture in 1915 was a eulogy to Gordon delivered by Professor Ron Jones. Margaret Sparrow reiterated her view that while Gordon had achieved much for the advancement of
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Gordon's commitment to the care of women and children broadened to raising the status of obstetrics and improving education of medical students and young specialists by establishing a chair in obstetrics at the
University of Otago and postgraduate training. In 1930–31 she raised money for an
202:, qualified with a Diploma in Public Health and married fellow medical graduate William (Bill) Patteson Pollock Gordon. She decided early in her career to devote herself to country practice. After doing locum work, she and Bill settled in
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