Gerry Mooney
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 256690 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gerry Mooney |
| NOMBRES | Gerry |
| APELLIDO | Mooney |
| FIRMA | MOONEY G |
| AFILIACIONES | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7775-9558 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 76 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 456 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
The new poor law and the health of the population of England and Wales
We estimate the impact of reductions in poor law expenditure on rural life expectancy and mortality rates in England and Wales following the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act. Given the scale of cuts imposed, our estimates imply 8-10 per cent increases in mortality at ages 1-4 years and 2-4 per cent falls in rural expectation of life at birth. This is consistent with the reformers' policy of reducing child allowances for larger families. These results …
Using antioppressive teaching principles to transform a graduate global health course at Johns Hopkins University
Education systems and pedagogical practices in global public health are facing substantive calls for change during the current and ongoing ‘decolonising global health’ movement. Incorporating antioppressive principles into learning communities is one promising approach to decolonising global health education. We sought to transform a four-credit graduate-level global health course at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health using antio…
The Reception House
The COVID-19 pandemic is revealing the many ways in which infectious disease control is a spatialized enterprise. Stay-at-home orders, travel bans and travel corridors, restrictions on visiting patients in hospitals, and many more regulations, speak to the power of space and place in conditioning the transmission of infectious diseases and the human experiences of them. Such spatializations have an extremely long history but were codified and for…
Scarlet fever and nineteenth‐century mortality trends
Romola Davenport's recent article is presented as a significant revision of the interpretation of the reasons for rising and then falling urban mortality in Britain in the nineteenth century put forward by Szreter and Mooney, which emphasized the importance of the politics of public health. Davenport's claims that mortality patterns c . 1830–70 were driven by a synchronized rise and fall of scarlet fever across Europe and North America, as well a…
Anne R. Hanley. Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases in England, 1886–1916
Framed by the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts in 1886 and the report of the Royal Commission on Venereal Disease in 1916, this book investigates the production, circulation and application of knowledge about venereal disease. Anne R. Hanley attempts to wrest the somewhat understudied developments in venereology in England from the more well-known advances in other European countries, such as the discovery of the causal agents of gonorrhea …
Beyond ‘Culture City’
Within the contemporary city social and economic polarisation has been accompanied by a corresponding reorganisation of the urban spatial structure, so that emerging 'post-industrial' cities contain within them groups who have 'lost-out' through economic transformation. This chapter focuses on Glasgow and examines the particular ways in which the dual city idea has been used there, drawing on academic studies, media coverage of Glasgow's regenera…
Place revisited
This paper reappraises the meaning of space and place in contemporary class analysis. We explore how class is reshaped and mediated by neoliberal urban restructuring, of which the processes of gentrification and territorial stigmatization form critical parts. We focus on the contemporary interrelation of class and urban restructuring in the post-crash city by looking at the local lived experiences of the 2014 Commonwealth Games (CWG) in Glasgow's…
Digital Media and Humanities
Digital Media and Humanities Graham Mooney Website Review: London’s Pulse http://wellcomelibrary.org/moh/ London’s Pulse is a digitized collection of London Medical Officer of Health (MOH) Reports covering the period 1848–1972. Starting with Sir John Simon’s first report for the City of London and ending with the major reorganization of English local government in the mid-1970s, London’s Pulse provides digitized coverage of the annual reports iss…
Welfare, equality and social justice
This paper focuses on the extent to which issues of equality, social justice and social welfare have been mobilised in the most prominent imaginings of an independent Scotland. Since 2011 the Scottish National Party (SNP) Scottish Government has repeatedly argued that any future independent Scotland will be characterised by a strong commitment to a distinctively Scottish social welfarism. This paper explores the main tenets of such claims noting …
Conceptualising Austerity in Scotland as a Risk Shift
There is growing recognition that UK austerity measures impact adversely and more acutely on the most disadvantaged individuals, communities and groups. These changes may be understood as representing a shift of responsibility away from collectives to individuals. This paper explores these issues through the lens of risk analysis. Drawing on case study research from one neighbourhood in one Scottish local authority, it considers how the distincti…
Washington and Welch Talk About Race Public Health, History, and the Politics of Exclusion
This article shows how history can be used as a tool to influence political debate. Public health education over the radio became remarkably popular in the United States in the years leading up to World War II. Lectures, monologues, round tables, question and answer sessions, and dramas were all used by health departments to communicate ideas and knowledge about preserving health. In Baltimore, Maryland, a radio series called Keeping Well began i…
The 2014 Scottish independence debate
This paper aims to foreground some of the main ways in which issues of social welfare and social policy came to occupy centre stage in the Scottish independence debate during recent years, culminating in the September 2014 Scottish independence referendum. It considers how issues relating to social welfare and the future of the welfare state more generally were advanced by the pro-Scottish independence YES camp as key arguments in the overall cas…
Contagion
Scottish criminal justice
It has been claimed that paradoxically, following the re-establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, Scottish criminal justice policy, hitherto more liberal and less punitive than ‘south of the Border’, became more closely aligned with London-based policies. It has also been argued that the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) Scottish government has, since gaining power in 2007, reversed that trend in a process of ‘retartanization’. Closer exa…
Disease maps
Disease maps: Epidemics on the ground, by Tom Koch, Chicago, IL, The University of Chicago Press, 2011, 344 pp., US$45.00 (hardcover), ISBN 9780226449357 Maps of disease have been with us for centu
The material consumptive
The proliferation of general and specialist hospitals, lunatic asylums, and workhouse infirmaries in the nineteenth century challenged the popular perception of the home as a suitable site of health care. Amidst the emergence of yet another type of institution, the tuberculosis sanatorium, tuberculosis control in the Edwardian period was re-sited and re-scaled to accommodate what might be termed a 'preventive therapy' of domestic space. Three int…
Introduction
This paper introduces the themed section of Critical Social Policy on social housing, privatization and neoliberalism. In tracing the key elements in the development of privatization and residualization since 1979, it argues that these can only be fully understood as part of a wider neoliberalizing agenda, an agenda that is driven by a particular class project. The paper also seeks to re-assert the importance of a critical approach to successive …
Social Justice and Social Policy in Scotland
Social justice and social policy in Scotland offers a critical engagement with the state of social policy in one of the devolved nations of the UK, a decade after the introduction of devolution. Promoting greater social justice has been held up as a key vision of successive Scottish administrations since devolution began. It is argued throughout this important book that the analysis of Scottish social policy must therefore be located in wider deb…
Crisis social policy and the resilience of the concept of community
This paper considers the continuing resilience of the notion of community in social policy making and wider political commentary in the contemporary UK. Focusing in particular on the ways in which community is negatively and positively invoked and mobilized in narratives of the ‘big’ and ‘broken’ societies, it considers why the notion of community, so popular with the previous New Labour government, continues to enchant the present UK Coalition g…
Devolution in a ‘Stateless Nation’
The implications of the 2011 Scottish election and the proposed referendum on Scottish independence for the future of social policy across the devolved UK are profound but far from certain. It is crucial to understand not only the historical nature of this conjuncture but to develop an adequate conceptual understanding of the place of social policy in the dialectic between state and nation in Scotland. To this end, we critically examine theories …
Class, Citizenship and Regeneration
Through a focus on “consumer‐citizenship” this paper foregrounds the class practices inherent in urban regeneration. Using Glasgow's 2014 Commonwealth Games (CWGs) as an illustrative example of regeneration, it seeks to highlight the market‐led processes that underpin state interventions. The paper demonstrates how these processes are implemented to transform “problem people, and problem places” ( Damer 1989 , From Moorepark to “Wine Alley” ) int…
Competitive Nationalism
Devolved government in Scotland actively reconstitutes the unequal conditions of social class reproduction. Recognition of state-led class reconstitution draws upon the social theory of Bourdieu. Our analysis of social class in devolved Scotland revisits theories that examine the state as a ‘power container’. A range of state-enabling powers regulate the legal, economic, social, and cultural containers of class relations as specific forms of what…
Social Justice and Social Policy in Scotland
Welfare Ghettos" and the "Broken Society
The idea of a "broken society" is advanced by Conservative politicians in the UK as emblematic of social and moral decay. With many echoes of long-standing claims of societal and moral breakdown, the narrative centres on "irresponsibility" and "disorderly" behaviours in disadvantaged working-class communities and asserts that welfare dependency is the underlying condition which produces "social breakdown". Social housing estates and the populatio…
Glasgow’s new urban frontier
Focusing on Glasgow’s East End, home to the 2014 Commonwealth Games, this paper explores the ways in which narratives of decline, ‘blight’ and decay play a central role in stigmatising the local population. ‘Glasgow East’ represents the new urban frontier in a city that has been heralded in recent decades as a model of successful post‐industrial transformation. Utilising Löic Wacquant’s arguments about advanced marginality and territorial stigmat…
Welfare Ghettos" and the "Broken Society
The idea of a "broken society" is advanced by Conservative politicians in the UK as emblematic of social and moral decay. With many echoes of long-standing claims of societal and moral breakdown, the narrative centres on "irresponsibility" and "disorderly" behaviours in disadvantaged working-class communities and asserts that welfare dependency is the underlying condition which produces "social breakdown". Social housing estates and the populatio…
Glasgow’s new urban frontier
Focusing on Glasgow’s East End, home to the 2014 Commonwealth Games, this paper explores the ways in which narratives of decline, ‘blight’ and decay play a central role in stigmatising the local population. ‘Glasgow East’ represents the new urban frontier in a city that has been heralded in recent decades as a model of successful post‐industrial transformation. Utilising Löic Wacquant’s arguments about advanced marginality and territorial stigmat…
Urbanization, Mortality, and the Standard of Living Debate
T he modern standard of living debate has been conducted throughout the last 40 years predominantly in the absence of any direct, detailed, and empirically based consideration of the mortality experience of the British working population during the industrial revolution era. 2 This is somewhat surprising in that, when setting out the basis for a 'pessimistic' view in his seminal contribution to the debate of 1957, Hobsbawm gave pride of place to …
Introduction
This paper introduces the themed section of Critical Social Policy on social housing, privatization and neoliberalism. In tracing the key elements in the development of privatization and residualization since 1979, it argues that these can only be fully understood as part of a wider neoliberalizing agenda, an agenda that is driven by a particular class project. The paper also seeks to re-assert the importance of a critical approach to successive …
Place revisited
This paper reappraises the meaning of space and place in contemporary class analysis. We explore how class is reshaped and mediated by neoliberal urban restructuring, of which the processes of gentrification and territorial stigmatization form critical parts. We focus on the contemporary interrelation of class and urban restructuring in the post-crash city by looking at the local lived experiences of the 2014 Commonwealth Games (CWG) in Glasgow's…
Class, Citizenship and Regeneration
Through a focus on “consumer‐citizenship” this paper foregrounds the class practices inherent in urban regeneration. Using Glasgow's 2014 Commonwealth Games (CWGs) as an illustrative example of regeneration, it seeks to highlight the market‐led processes that underpin state interventions. The paper demonstrates how these processes are implemented to transform “problem people, and problem places” ( Damer 1989 , From Moorepark to “Wine Alley” ) int…
Involving the general public in priority setting
Forging new ‘ways of life’? Social policy and nation building in devolved Scotland and Wales
This paper explores the ways in which social policy is being used to recreate and reproduce a sense of nation and national identity in devolved Scotland and Wales. It argues that devolution has important consequences for our sense of Britishness and of Scottishness and Welshness, not least in relation to the ways in which social policies are presented and legitimated. It is further argued that across the UK there is a marked attempt by New Labour…
A land of milk and honey’? Social policy in Scotland after Devolution
This paper questions the extent to which a distinctively Scottish social welfare policy has emerged post-Devolution. Exploring the myths that continue to pervade the discussion and analysis of Scottish society today, it is argued that the scope for policy departure is limited in a number of different ways. While acknowledging that there are important institutional and implementation differences that can and do affect the delivery of welfare in Sc…
Crisis social policy and the resilience of the concept of community
This paper considers the continuing resilience of the notion of community in social policy making and wider political commentary in the contemporary UK. Focusing in particular on the ways in which community is negatively and positively invoked and mobilized in narratives of the ‘big’ and ‘broken’ societies, it considers why the notion of community, so popular with the previous New Labour government, continues to enchant the present UK Coalition g…
Did London pass the "sanitary test"? Seasonal infant mortality in London, 1870-1914
The ‘Broken Society’ Election
This paper considers some of the ways in which representations of people experiencing poverty and disadvantaged places continue to be informed by ideas of individual inadequacy, dependency and disorder. Drawing on media reportage of poverty during the Glasgow East by-election in July 2008, it argues not only that people defined as ‘poor’ and locales that are severely disadvantaged continue to be ‘othered’ through such narratives, but also that th…
The 2014 Scottish independence debate
This paper aims to foreground some of the main ways in which issues of social welfare and social policy came to occupy centre stage in the Scottish independence debate during recent years, culminating in the September 2014 Scottish independence referendum. It considers how issues relating to social welfare and the future of the welfare state more generally were advanced by the pro-Scottish independence YES camp as key arguments in the overall cas…
Decentring Social Policy? Devolution and the Discipline of Social Policy
Constitutional change offers the opportunity for a major departure in the nature and direction of policy, practices and governance in social policy. This article explores some of the impacts devolution has for the discipline of social policy, suggesting that devolution matters for social policy as a field of research and study, and for the analysis and understanding of developments in UK social policy. It argues that devolution has a number of im…
Poverty and Social Justice in the Devolved Scotland
Drawing on current debates in social policy, this paper considers the extent to which social justice has and is informing social policy making in devolved Scotland. Relating to the work of social justice theorists Young, Fraser and Lister in particular, it critically examines some key Scottish social policy measures since 1999, considering some of the ways in which these have been constructed in terms of social justice and which make claims to th…
Introduction
This paper argues both that devolution is central to our understanding of developments in social policy in the contemporary UK and that social policy is a key means through which we can develop a critical understanding of the process of devolution itself. Much of the devolved powers available to the governments in Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff centre on social policy innovation and practice. Devolution was widely welcomed as opening up the poten…
Conceptualising Austerity in Scotland as a Risk Shift
There is growing recognition that UK austerity measures impact adversely and more acutely on the most disadvantaged individuals, communities and groups. These changes may be understood as representing a shift of responsibility away from collectives to individuals. This paper explores these issues through the lens of risk analysis. Drawing on case study research from one neighbourhood in one Scottish local authority, it considers how the distincti…
Scottish criminal justice
It has been claimed that paradoxically, following the re-establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, Scottish criminal justice policy, hitherto more liberal and less punitive than ‘south of the Border’, became more closely aligned with London-based policies. It has also been argued that the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) Scottish government has, since gaining power in 2007, reversed that trend in a process of ‘retartanization’. Closer exa…
Social Justice, Social Welfare and Devolution
Constitutional change in the UK in 1998 led to the establishment of devolution for Scotland, and the Scottish Parliament was reconvened in 1999 after a gap of nearly 300 years. Devolution promised the development of policies that were more in tune with ‘Scottish needs’, and was heralded as delivering ‘Scottish solutions for Scottish problems’. Now with a Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) Government in power in Edinburgh committed to greater devolu…
Scotland divided
The re-establishment of a Scottish parliament in Edinburgh in May 1999 has promised new and innovative developments in social policy. Focusing on poverty and social exclusion, this article considers the likelihood that the approach by the new Scottish parliament will represent a departure from the approach of the Westminster government. There is some expectation that Scotland's experience will be different given the distinctive political and cult…
Patient Pathways
This paper confronts a major problem in relation to the metropolitan and urban mortality declines in Britain during the later nineteenth century: the extent to which cause-specific death rates at district level were distorted by an official failure to redistribute deaths occurring in institutions back to "normal" place of residence. Describing and analysing the manner in which hospital and infirmary provision in the capital during this period det…
Competitive Nationalism
Devolved government in Scotland actively reconstitutes the unequal conditions of social class reproduction. Recognition of state-led class reconstitution draws upon the social theory of Bourdieu. Our analysis of social class in devolved Scotland revisits theories that examine the state as a ‘power container’. A range of state-enabling powers regulate the legal, economic, social, and cultural containers of class relations as specific forms of what…
We’ve never had it so good’
Class has become the social condition that dare not it speak its name in the devolved Scotland. This is despite the persistence of marked class divisions and structured inequalities within contemporary Scottish society. We critically examine the most empirically sophisticated and coherent analysis of social class in Scotland – that provided by ‘the Edinburgh school’ of social scientists, particularly their claim that Scotland is now a prosperous,…
Infant mortality in an ‘Age of Great Cities’
Ce travail s'appuie sur les données publiées de l'enregistrement demographique pour évaluer le taux de mortalité infantile annuel pour 21 villes anglaises et 25 districts de Londres entre 1840 et 1910. Une approche géographique comparative permet de différentier les niveaux respectifs de mortalité infantile et de mettre en évidence des cycles courts de ces variations. Si les facteurs locaux ont leur importance (croissance urbaine, conditions sani…
Devolution in a ‘Stateless Nation’
The implications of the 2011 Scottish election and the proposed referendum on Scottish independence for the future of social policy across the devolved UK are profound but far from certain. It is crucial to understand not only the historical nature of this conjuncture but to develop an adequate conceptual understanding of the place of social policy in the dialectic between state and nation in Scotland. To this end, we critically examine theories …
The general election in Scotland
Asks why the Tory collapse at the last general election north of the border, and examines the prospects for amore radical politics in Scotland
Economics, Medicine and Health Care
The struggle against the poll tax in Scotland
April the first, 1989, was an historic day in Scotland. Traditionally April Fool's Day has historically given rise to a wide-range of pracical jokes and stunts, a day for laughing as friends and enemies are caught unawares. But this year's April Fools Day was not a laughing matter for the vast majority of Scotland's population. As 25,000 demonstrators marched through Edinburgh in a protest against the Poll Tax, 3.9 million Scots started receiving…
Undermining the 'north-south divide'? Fighting the poll tax in Scotland, England and Wales
Disease, Mortality and Population in Transition
Rethinking medical audit
The poll tax struggle in Britain
Did London pass the "sanitary test"? Seasonal infant mortality in London, 1870-1914
Infant mortality in an ‘Age of Great Cities’
Ce travail s'appuie sur les données publiées de l'enregistrement demographique pour évaluer le taux de mortalité infantile annuel pour 21 villes anglaises et 25 districts de Londres entre 1840 et 1910. Une approche géographique comparative permet de différentier les niveaux respectifs de mortalité infantile et de mettre en évidence des cycles courts de ces variations. Si les facteurs locaux ont leur importance (croissance urbaine, conditions sani…
Urban history and historical epidemiology
Advocating a closer relationship between urban and epidemiological history, the paper concentrates, firstly, on a critical overview of the McKeown thesis. It next identifies components from the work of John Landers as a means of constructing a structural model of mortality experienced during the period under review. The paper goes on to examine the manner in which this model might be applied to London during an era in which the classic killing in…
Professionalization in Public Health and the Measurement of Sanitary Progress in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales
During the course of the nineteenth century, the Registrar-General's Office in England and Wales used crude mortality rates as a demographic barometer of the environmental conditions of towns and cities. The local authorities in places with comparatively high rates were exhorted to improve them through more and better public health reforms. This technique of public coercion was often criticized, especially by a selection of Medical Officers of He…
Urbanization, Mortality, and the Standard of Living Debate
T he modern standard of living debate has been conducted throughout the last 40 years predominantly in the absence of any direct, detailed, and empirically based consideration of the mortality experience of the British working population during the industrial revolution era. 2 This is somewhat surprising in that, when setting out the basis for a 'pessimistic' view in his seminal contribution to the debate of 1957, Hobsbawm gave pride of place to …
Public Health versus Private Practice
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 73, Number 2, Summer 1999
Patient Pathways
This paper confronts a major problem in relation to the metropolitan and urban mortality declines in Britain during the later nineteenth century: the extent to which cause-specific death rates at district level were distorted by an official failure to redistribute deaths occurring in institutions back to "normal" place of residence. Describing and analysing the manner in which hospital and infirmary provision in the capital during this period det…
Public Places and Private Lives in Imperial London
Scotland divided
The re-establishment of a Scottish parliament in Edinburgh in May 1999 has promised new and innovative developments in social policy. Focusing on poverty and social exclusion, this article considers the likelihood that the approach by the new Scottish parliament will represent a departure from the approach of the Westminster government. There is some expectation that Scotland's experience will be different given the distinctive political and cult…
Rethinking Welfare
The anti-capitalist movement is increasingly challenging the global hegemony of neo-liberalism. The arguments against the neo-liberal agenda are clearly articulated in Rethinking Welfare. The authors highlight the growing inequalities and decimation of state welfare, and use Marxist approaches to contemporary social policy to provide a defence of the welfare state. \n \nDivided into three main sections, the first part of this volume looks at the …
Shifting sex differentials in mortality during urban epidemiological transition
Unlike some forms of mortality inequality, sex differentials in England and Wales increased unequivocally during the Victorian era. A gradual reversal of this trend was observed only recently. The origin of the widened mortality gap between males and females lies in the transformation of the epidemiological landscape during the second half of the nineteenth century, from one where epidemic and endemic infectious diseases dominated, to one where c…
Involving the general public in priority setting
Cultural Policy as Urban Transformation? Critical Reflections on Glasgow, European City of Culture 1990
This paper revisits Glasgow, European City of Culture 1990, and considers the main criticisms made of Glasgow's cultural policy as urban renewal strategy. It argues that while many of the criticisms made by opposition groups such as Workers' City were valid, and largely supported by the economic and social problems that have faced the City since 1990, nonetheless it also suggests that this critical response itself needs to be subjected to more th…
Rethinking Welfare
Book note for Ian Ferguson, Michael Lavalette and Gerry Mooney, Rethinking Welfare: A Critical Perspective. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Pub- lications, 2002. $92.00 hardcover, $27.00 papercover
Urban Policy in the New Scotland
This paper seeks to address a number of important questions that arise from contemporary urban policy developments within Scotland. First, how far the recent and developing urban policies, most noticeably Social Inclusion Partnerships, of the Scottish Executive are influenced by or diverge from the strategies pursued by previous Conservative and Labour governments. Secondly, how far urban social policy, in a Scottish context, continues to be char…
A land of milk and honey’? Social policy in Scotland after Devolution
This paper questions the extent to which a distinctively Scottish social welfare policy has emerged post-Devolution. Exploring the myths that continue to pervade the discussion and analysis of Scottish society today, it is argued that the scope for policy departure is limited in a number of different ways. While acknowledging that there are important institutional and implementation differences that can and do affect the delivery of welfare in Sc…
Life, Death and Statistics
Reviewed by: Life, Death and Statistics: Civil Registration, Censuses and the Work of the General Register Office, 1836-1952 Graham Mooney Edward Higgs . Life, Death and Statistics: Civil Registration, Censuses and the Work of the General Register Office, 1836–1952. A Local Population Studies Supplement. Hatfield, Hertfordshire, U.K.: University of Hertfordshire, 2004. xiii + 258 pp. Ill. £12.50 (paperbound, 0-9541621-0-2). Given the abundance of…
The Gold Standard
Reviewed by: The Gold Standard: The Challenge of Evidence Based Medicine and Standardization in Health Care Graham Mooney Stefan Timmermans and Marc Berg . The Gold Standard: The Challenge of Evidence Based Medicine and Standardization in Health Care. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003. ix + 269 pp. Ill. $62.50 (cloth, 1-59213-187-5), $20.95 (paperbound, 1-59213-188-3). This impressive book draws on a range of methodologically diverse ca…
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