Person

Dyason, Diana Joan (1919 - 1989)

Born
1919
Died
30 September 1989
Occupation
Science historian and Medical historian

Summary

Diana Dyason was Reader in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne 1965-1984 and Head of Department 1965-1974. She was a Senior Lecturer 1957-1965 and had been in charge of the department from 1958. Earlier she worked in physiology. The Dyason lectures are present by eminent historian at the annual meeting of the Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science and Society.

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Chronology

1943 - 1949
Career position - Demonstrator in the Physiology Department, University of Melbourne
1950 - 1956
Career position - Department of General Science, later the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne
1957 - 1965
Career position - Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne
1958 - ?
Career position - In charge of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne
1965 - 1974
Career position - Head of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne
1965 - 1984
Career position - Reader in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne
1967
Career position - Foundation President of the Australasian Association for the History and Philosophy of Science

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Archival resources

The University of Melbourne Archives

  • Diana Joan Dyason - Records, 1940 - 1980; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

  • McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regularly edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Books

  • Carey, Jane, Taking to the field: a history of Australian women in science (Clayton, Vic.: Monash University Press, 2023), 297 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Dyason, D., 'The medical profession in colonial Victoria, 1834 - 1901' in Disease, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Western Medicine and the Experience of European Expansion, Macleod, Roy and Lewis, Milton, eds (London: Routledge, 1988), pp. 194-216. Details
  • Dyason, Diana, 'Preludes' in The Half-open Door: Sixteen Modern Australian Women Look at Life and Achievement, Patricia Grimshaw and Lynne Strahan, eds (Melbourne: Hale and Iremonger, 1982). Details
  • Dyason, Diana, 'Diana Dyason' in Memories of Melbourne University: Undergraduate Life in the Years since 1917, H. Dow, ed. (Melbourne: Hutchinson, 1983), p. 203. Details
  • Dyason, Diana J., 'Gresswell, Dan Astley (1853-1904), public health administrator' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 103-104. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/gresswell-dan-astley-6481. Details
  • MacCallum, Monica, 'Dyason, Diana Joan (1919-1989), university lecturer and historian of medicine' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 17: 1981 - 1990 A-K, Diane Langmore, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2007), pp. 347-348. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dyason-diana-joan-ding-12448. Details

Conference Papers

  • Dyason, Diana J., 'James Jamieson and the Ladies', in Patients, Practitioners and Techniques: Second National Conference on Medicine and Health in Australia, Melbourne, 1984 edited by Harold Attwood and R. W. Home (Melbourne: Medical History Unit and Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne, a, 1984).. Details
  • Dyason, Diana J., 'A Country Practice', in Reflections on Medical History and Health in Australia. Third National Conference on Medical History and Health in Australia edited by Harold Attwood and Geoffrey Kenny (Melbourne: University of Melbourne, Medical History Unit, 1986), pp. 201-210.. Details

Journal Articles

  • Dyason, Diana, 'After thirty years: history and philosophy of science in Australia 1946 - 1976', Critical studies in education, 19 (1977), 45-74. Details
  • Dyason, Diana J., 'William Gillbee and Ersyipelas at the Melbourne Hospital: Medical Theory and Social Actions', Journal of Australian Studies, 8 (14) (1984), 3-28, https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058409386881. Details
  • Flesch, Juliet, 'The Ones that Got Away: Four Women from the Department of Physiology and What they Did Next', University of Melbourne Collections, 11 (2012), 44-60. Details
  • Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, '150 Years, 150 Stories: Diana Joan Dyason', Uni News, 11 (26) (2002), 4. Details
  • Home. R. W., 'Eloge: Diana Joan Dyason, 1919 - 1989', Metascience, 8 (1) (1990), 6-10. Details
  • Polak, Bety, 'Women in Science : Dr Diana ('Ding') Dyason, history and philosophy of science', Wisenet : Journal of the Women in Science Enquiry Network (1987), 8, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3723939086. Details

Resources

See also

  • Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 150 years, 150 stories: brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne (Melbourne: Department of History, University of Melbourne, 2003), 168 pp. Details
  • Grimshaw, Patricia and Strahan, Lynne eds, The Half-open Door: Sixteen Modern Australian Women Look at Life and Achievement (Sydney: Hale and Iremonger, 1982), 344 pp. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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