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Teixeira, Carol Reno (1906-1980): Memoir

 Collection — Container: Memoir
Identifier: O-T235

Scope and Contents

INSTITUTE OF INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS COLLECTION This memoir is a "simulated interview" with Carol Reno Teixeira (actually compiled from written memoirs and reminiscences). Teixeira, nurse, discusses her work, travels, and experiences with the IIAA in Latin America and Africa. In the Amazon Valley of Brazil: weather, geographical features, and training women for a variety of health services, the San Francisco Valley, UNICEF milk program and child hygiene centers. In El Salvador: field and office work, colleagues, activities outside work, and the people of El Salvador. In Surinam: language problems, nurses training programs, and life in general. In Liberia, Africa: living and working conditions, programs and problems, language difficulties, native living and working conditions, diseases and treatments, school health programs, and government agency problems. In reference to each country food, language, housing, and hygiene conditions are detailed.

Memoir, 72 pp. Compiled by James D. Williams and Margarida Reno, 1989 Donated by the Oral History Research Office, Columbia University, New York. RESTRICTED: May be read but not quoted, cited or reproduced.

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RESTRICTED: May be read but not quoted, cited or reproduced.

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1.00 items

Language of Materials

English

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