Title Flying nurse / Robin Miller

Published Adelaide : Rigby, 1971

Copies

Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'PONDS	629.130924 Mil		AVAILABLE

Description 220 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm regular print Summary Author recounts experience as aviator and nurse with Royal Flying Doctor Service; includes account of her involvement with the Sabin poliomyelitis vaccination programme in remote communities in northern West Australia during 1960's; warm anecdotes of encounters with groups and individuals in various remote Aboriginal communities; chapter on visit to Don McLeod's camp in the Wodjina Hills and revisiting stations pioneered by Durack family; Miller is Mary Durack's daughter; nicknamed "Sugarbird Lady" by Aboriginal children during vaccination campaign Analysis Aircraft. Flying. Miller, Robin.Autobiographies Medical services. Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. Nursing. Miller, Robin. Western Australia. Autobiographies Notes National Library's N2 copy is inscribed and signed by the author's mother, Mary Druack Miller. ANL Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Subject McLeod, D. W. (Donald William) Miller, Robin (Robin Eve), 1941-1975. Miller, Robin. Kalumburu Mission (W.A.) Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. Aboriginal Australians -- Health and hygiene -- Australia -- Western Australia. Aeronautics in medicine -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Biography. Aeronautics in medicine -- Australia -- Western Australia. Health services -- Australia Medical care -- Australia. Nurses -- Australia. Nursing -- Australia. Rural health services -- Australia. Rural health services -- Australia -- Western Australia. Trachoma -- Australia -- Western Australia. Women air pilots -- Biography Women air pilots -- Australia -- Biography. Nursing. Health Services. Western Australia. Australia. Australia. Western Australia. Genre/Form Autobiography. Autobiographies. Author Kollie, T. G. Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Instrumentation and Controls Division. LC no. 73129825 ISBN 0851792529

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