Roy Macleod
Biographic Data
| ID | 217344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roy Macleod |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roy |
| FAMILY NAME | Macleod |
| SIGNATURE | MACLEOD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2382-4769 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 95 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 104 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 91 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
British Empire in metals’: Non-state actors and the political economy of imperial minerals, 1913–39
The 'Creed of Science' in Victorian England
Contents: Introduction The X-Club: a social network in late-Victorian England The scientistsa (TM)s declaration: reflections on science and belief in the wake of Essays and Reviews, 1864a 1865 The a bankruptcy of sciencea (TM) debate: the a creed of sciencea (TM) and its critics, 1885a 1900 Evolutionism, internationalism and commercial enterprise in science: the international scientific series, 1871a 1910 Education - scientific and technical Fath…
Pregnancy loss: A qualitative exploration of an experience stigmatized in the workplace
Disease, Medicine, and Empire: Perspectives on Western Medicine and the Experience of European Expansion
Disease, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Western Medicine and the Experience of European Expansion
Darwin's Laboratory: Evolutionary Theory and Natural History in the Pacific
Educational needs of healthcare professionals and members of the general public in Alberta Canada, 2 years after the implementation of medical assistance in dying
Medical assistance in dying (MAID) was implemented across Canada in June of 2016, after each Canadian province and territory had developed their own MAID processes. Over the first 2 years, just under 300 Alberta citizens received MAID services, a very small proportion (<0.5%) of all 52,000 decedents. An online 2017-2018 survey of Alberta healthcare providers and members of the general public was conducted to assess and compare their knowledge of …
Funeral and interment practices of rural residents: A mixed methods study
There are few studies on interment preferences and practices for people in remote and rural regions of developed countries. This mixed methods study in rural Australia collated data on funeral and interment practices with an ethnographic exploration of the post-death preferences of terminally-ill rural residents. In the region, between February 2015 and May 2016, 44% of decedents were cremated. Burial preferences reflected family traditions, gene…
Measuring Spirituality and Religiosity in Clinical Settings: A Scoping Review of Available Instruments
Aims: Numerous measures exist that assess dimensions of spirituality and religiosity in health, theological and social settings. In this review, we aim to identify and evaluate measures assessing factors relating to spirituality and religiosity in clinical settings. Methods: A systematic literature search was conducted using PubMed, EMBASE and PsycINFO databases with search terms relating to spirituality, religiosity that also included well-being…
Rural residents' perspectives on the rural ‘good death’: A scoping review
The 'good death' is one objective of palliative care, with many 'good death' viewpoints and research findings reflecting the urban voice. Rural areas are distinct and need special consideration. This scoping review identified and charted current research knowledge on the 'good' rural death through the perspectives of rural residents, including rural patients with a life-limiting illness, to identify evidence and gaps in the literature for future …
Dying at home in rural residential aged care: A mixed-methods study in the Snowy Monaro region, Australia
Residential aged care (RAC) is a significant provider of end-of-life care for people aged 65 years and older. Rural residents perceive themselves as different to their urban counterparts. Most studies describing place of death (PoD) in RAC are quantitative and reflect an urban voice. Using a mixed-methods design, this paper examines the PoD of 80 RAC residents (15 short-stay residents who died in RAC during respite or during an attempted step-dow…
Spiritual care training is needed for clinical and non-clinical staff to manage patients’ spiritual needs
As health-care moves towards a more person-centred approach, spiritual care has become more important in patients’ care. Recent evidence shows positive associations between both recognizing and addressing patient spiritual needs and health outcomes. Thus, we conducted a cross-sectional survey to determine levels in understanding of patients’ spiritual needs and spiritual care among clinical and non-clinical staff working with people with chronic …
Death Anxiety Among New Zealanders: The Predictive Roles of Religion, Spirituality, and Family Connection
The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate attitudes of New Zealanders toward death and dying. We administered an online version of Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale and Concerns about Dying Instrument subscales to a representative sample of the New Zealand population. One thousand one people responded to the survey, where the largest age-group lay between 30 and 39 years. Respondents with strong religious beliefs showed strongest …
The Mobilisation of Minds and the Crisis in International Science: The Krieg der Geister and the Manifesto of the 93
‘The sleep of reason begets monsters’. (Goya)The Great War was a contest no less of minds than of machines. This proved to be as true in the sciences as in literature and the arts. Across the scientific world blew a whirlwind of nationalism that threatened the traditions of science, revealing hidden tensions that cultural historians have yet fully to assess. Such was the impact of An die Kulturwelt! Ein Aufruf, or the Appeal to the World of Cultu…
Can specially trained community care workers effectively support patients and their families in the home setting at the end of life
Surveys indicate that many Australians would prefer to die at home, but relatively few do. Recognising that patients and their families may not have the support they need to enable end-of-life care at home, a consortium of care providers developed, and received funding to trial, the Palliative Care Home Support Program (PCHSP) across seven health districts in New South Wales, Australia. The programme aimed to supplement end-of-life care in the ho…
Bereavement grief: A population-based foundational evidence study
Information is needed on the incidence and prevalence of bereavement grief, and factors associated with severe or prolonged grief. Among 1,208 representative Canadian adults, 96% had experienced bereavement grief and 78% were actively grieving at interview. Grief levels were higher among women, Protestants, and Catholics, when the death was under 2 years previously, when a spouse, parent, or child had died, and when the perceived death quality wa…
New Zealand Nurses' Perceptions of Spirituality and Spiritual care: Qualitative Findings from a National Survey
This paper presents the qualitative findings from the first national survey of New Zealand nurses' views on spirituality and spiritual care. The importance of spirituality as a core aspect of holistic nursing care is gaining momentum. Little is currently known about New Zealand nurses' understandings, perceptions and experience of spirituality. Design: A descriptive online survey. Method: A random sample of 2000 individuals resident in New Zealan…
The Ability of Hospital Staff to Recognise and Meet Patients’ Spiritual Needs: A Pilot Study
Objectives: We conducted an online cross-sectional survey to determine the understanding of spirituality and spiritual care among clinical and non-clinical staff caring for people with chronic and terminal conditions. Background: As health care moves towards a more person-centred approach, spiritual care has become more important in patients’ care. Recent evidence shows positive associations between addressing patient spiritual needs and health o…
Death anxiety among New Zealanders: The predictive role of gender and marital status
The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate attitudes of New Zealanders towards death and dying. We administered an online version of Collett–Lester Fear of Death Scale and Concerns About Dying Instrument subscales to a representative sample of the New Zealand population. In total, 1001 people responded to the survey. Women reported more anxiousness concerning their own death (p = .001) and dying at a young age (p > .001). Women also…
Examining Linkages Between Bereavement Grief Intensity and Perceived Death Quality: Qualitative Findings
Some people experience more intense and prolonged bereavement grief after the death of a loved one. A mixed-methods study was undertaken out of concern that bereavement grief intensity may be associated with survivor perceptions of a “good” or “bad” death. The qualitative study phase was undertaken after a pilot study revealed bereavement grief intensity and perceived death quality were close to being negatively correlated ( R = −.156, p = .06). …
Consensus, Civility, and Community: The Origins of Minerva and the Vision of Edward Shils
Caregivers’ Estimations of Their Children's Perceptions of Death as a Biological Concept
Communication about death is often a sensitive topic in families with children. The present studied compared answers of 141 school children aged 5-7 to questions about death, and their caregivers' predictions. Children were interviewed, and caregivers answered on paper, questions on inevitability, applicability, irreversibility, cessation, causation, and personal mortality. For causation, cessation, and irreversibility, children were significantl…
Primary caregivers’ experiences living with children involved in pediatric palliative care in New Zealand
Pediatric palliative care (PPC) is a family-centered method of caring for young patients with life-limiting illnesses. A qualitative study of caregivers' communication with their children aged 3.5 years to 18 years was conducted using semi-structured, in-depth interviews. Nineteen caregivers living in the Auckland area participated. Interviews focused on the topic of whether to talk with children about their (and their brothers or sisters) illnes…
The public’s viewpoint on the right to hastened death in Alberta, Canada: Findings from a population survey study
A research study was conducted to determine public opinion in Alberta, a Canadian province, on the controversial topic of death hastening. Questions on the right to hastened death, end-of-life plans and end-of-life experiences were included in the Population Research Laboratory's annual 2010 health-care telephone survey, with 1203 adults providing results relatively representative of Albertans. Of all 1203, 72.6% said yes to the question: 'Should…
What is spirituality? Evidence from a New Zealand hospice study
Spirituality is increasingly understood to be important in healthcare provision, as seen in policy, guidelines and practice across many Western healthcare systems. Definitions of spirituality remain controversial, despite their importance for consistency in research and practice. This paper reports on the definition findings of a nation-wide New Zealand (NZ) study (2006–2008) that examined understandings, experiences and ways to improve spiritual…
Scientific Advice for British India: Imperial Perceptions and Administrative Goals, 1898-1923
In recent years there has been a continuing effort to place the history of scientific activity in Europe firmly in the political, economic and social contexts in which ideas and institutions have developed. Hitherto, however, comparatively little attention has been paid to the development of scientific institutions in the European colonial empires, or to the role of scientific activity in the commercial exploitation, civil government, or politica…
The support of victorian science: The endowment of research movement in Great Britain, 1868?1900
Evolutionism and Richard Owen, 1830-1868: An Episode in Darwin's Century
On reflection
VI. The Royal Society and the Government Grant: Notes on the Administration of Scientific Research, 1849–191
The development of government participation in the support of research is one of the most significant characteristics of nineteenth-century science. As public money became available for science, the social framework of research underwent a profound transformation. This process of transformation is not easy to define, but the response of scientific societies and institutions sometimes provides significant clues
Medical politics and the professionalisation of medicine in New South Wales, 1850–1901
The Scientists' Declaration: Reflexions on Science and Belief in the Wake of Essays and Reviews , 1864–5
During the decades following the publication of Darwin's Origin of species in 1859, religious belief in England and in particular the Church of England experienced some of the most intense criticism in its history. The early 1860s saw the appearance of Lyell's Evidence of the antiquity of man (1863), Tylor's research on the early history of mankind (1863), Renan's Vie de Jésus (1863), Pius IX's encyclical, Quanta cura , and the accompanying Sylla…
Scientific advice in the War at Sea, 1915-1917: The Board of Invention and Research
Science and Government in Victorian England: Lighthouse Illumination and the Board of Trade, 1866-1886
Government and Resource Conservation: The Salmon Acts Administration, 1860-1886
No area of Victorian administrative history is more richly documented or less adequately explored than that concerning the development of public policy by professional or scientific “specialists” within the civil departments of Government. Traditionally, texts on the evolution of the modern state have concentrated upon the role of political philosophy, economic motivation, and parliamentary expedience in determining the direction and timing of go…
Consensus, Civility, and Community: The Origins of Minerva and the Vision of Edward Shils
Sight and Sound on the Western Front: Surveyors, Scientists, and the ‘Battlefield Laboratory’, 1915–1918
(2000). Sight and Sound on the Western Front: Surveyors, Scientists, and the ‘Battlefield Laboratory’, 1915–1918. War & Society: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 23-46
The 'Bankruptcy of Science' Debate: The Creed of Science and its Critics, 1885-1900
The Committee of Civil Research: Scientific advice for economic development 1925?30
New Zealand Nurses' Perceptions of Spirituality and Spiritual care: Qualitative Findings from a National Survey
This paper presents the qualitative findings from the first national survey of New Zealand nurses' views on spirituality and spiritual care. The importance of spirituality as a core aspect of holistic nursing care is gaining momentum. Little is currently known about New Zealand nurses' understandings, perceptions and experience of spirituality. Design: A descriptive online survey. Method: A random sample of 2000 individuals resident in New Zealan…
Caregivers’ Estimations of Their Children's Perceptions of Death as a Biological Concept
Communication about death is often a sensitive topic in families with children. The present studied compared answers of 141 school children aged 5-7 to questions about death, and their caregivers' predictions. Children were interviewed, and caregivers answered on paper, questions on inevitability, applicability, irreversibility, cessation, causation, and personal mortality. For causation, cessation, and irreversibility, children were significantl…
Secrets among Friends: The Research Information Service and the "Special Relationship" in Allied Scientific Information and Intelligence, 1916-1918
The Mobilisation of Minds and the Crisis in International Science: The Krieg der Geister and the Manifesto of the 93
‘The sleep of reason begets monsters’. (Goya)The Great War was a contest no less of minds than of machines. This proved to be as true in the sciences as in literature and the arts. Across the scientific world blew a whirlwind of nationalism that threatened the traditions of science, revealing hidden tensions that cultural historians have yet fully to assess. Such was the impact of An die Kulturwelt! Ein Aufruf, or the Appeal to the World of Cultu…
Can specially trained community care workers effectively support patients and their families in the home setting at the end of life
Surveys indicate that many Australians would prefer to die at home, but relatively few do. Recognising that patients and their families may not have the support they need to enable end-of-life care at home, a consortium of care providers developed, and received funding to trial, the Palliative Care Home Support Program (PCHSP) across seven health districts in New South Wales, Australia. The programme aimed to supplement end-of-life care in the ho…
The public’s viewpoint on the right to hastened death in Alberta, Canada: Findings from a population survey study
A research study was conducted to determine public opinion in Alberta, a Canadian province, on the controversial topic of death hastening. Questions on the right to hastened death, end-of-life plans and end-of-life experiences were included in the Population Research Laboratory's annual 2010 health-care telephone survey, with 1203 adults providing results relatively representative of Albertans. Of all 1203, 72.6% said yes to the question: 'Should…
The liminality of palliative care
Introduction: This paper discusses the application of the anthropological concept of liminality to narratives of New Zealanders living in the community with life threatening conditions, both malignant and non-malignant. Method: This qualitative research aimed to explore the ways in which people diagnosed with life-threatening conditions managed their life world. Using a narrative approach, 13 participants, eight spousal caregivers, three adult ch…
The scientists go to war: Revisiting precept and practice, 19141919
Within the period 191419, the image of western science underwent a major transformation. In each of the belligerent countries, men of science abandoned their commitment to traditional values of internationality and communality values which, whilst often honoured more in the breach than in the observance, had served as ideals for over a century. Crusading, often against entrenched opposition from their own political and military leaders, scientist…
Science and Democracy: Historical Reflections on Present Discontents
Instructed men? and Mining Engineers: The associates of the Royal School of Mines and British Imperial Science, 1851?1920
Strategies for Europe: Proposals for science and technology policies
Evolutionism and Richard Owen, 1830-1868: An Episode in Darwin's Century
Social Policy and the 'Floating Population: The Administration of the Canal Boats Acts 1877-1899
Journal Article SOCIAL POLICY AND THE 'FLOATING POPULATION': The Administration of the Canal Boats Acts 1877–1899 Get access Roy M. MacLeod Roy M. MacLeod University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 35, Issue 1, December 1966, Pages 101–132, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/35.1.101 Published: 01 December 1966
The Edge of Hope: Social Policy and Chronic Alcoholism 1870–1900
“We can see that the true Prevention of Drunkenness is not a mere stricturing of taps; that society, besides having to abolish those loathsome surroundings of life which now sometimes revolt sober men almost into envy of the drunkard, has to develop the reasonable minds to which drunkenness shall have neither charm nor excuse...” Sir John Simon, English Sanitary Institutions, London, 1890, page 479.
Government and Resource Conservation: The Salmon Acts Administration, 1860-1886
No area of Victorian administrative history is more richly documented or less adequately explored than that concerning the development of public policy by professional or scientific “specialists” within the civil departments of Government. Traditionally, texts on the evolution of the modern state have concentrated upon the role of political philosophy, economic motivation, and parliamentary expedience in determining the direction and timing of go…
The Committee of Civil Research: Scientific advice for economic development 1925?30
Science and Government in Victorian England: Lighthouse Illumination and the Board of Trade, 1866-1886
The X-Club. A social network of science in late-Victorian England
AMONG the more significant features of nineteenth-century British science was the emergence of social and professional networks which helped to shape or influence the course of scientific activity. By and large, the most conspicuous arbiters of scientific values were the learned societies, the British Association and the universities. These formal bodies, however, almost always reflected the attitudes and assumptions of small, informal, often obs…
Scientists, government and organised research in Great Britain 1914-16
Of medals and men: A reward system in Victorian science, 1826-1914
Though discoveries in science may be the result of genius or accident, and though the most important discoveries may have been made by individuals without public assistance, the progress of such discoveries may at all times be materially accelerated by a proper application of public encouragement. (I)
The support of victorian science: The endowment of research movement in Great Britain, 1868?1900
Scientific advice in the War at Sea, 1915-1917: The Board of Invention and Research
VI. The Royal Society and the Government Grant: Notes on the Administration of Scientific Research, 1849–191
The development of government participation in the support of research is one of the most significant characteristics of nineteenth-century science. As public money became available for science, the social framework of research underwent a profound transformation. This process of transformation is not easy to define, but the response of scientific societies and institutions sometimes provides significant clues
Les archives historiques des scientifiques britanniques
The Quest for Archives of British Men of Science
Scientific Advice for British India: Imperial Perceptions and Administrative Goals, 1898-1923
In recent years there has been a continuing effort to place the history of scientific activity in Europe firmly in the political, economic and social contexts in which ideas and institutions have developed. Hitherto, however, comparatively little attention has been paid to the development of scientific institutions in the European colonial empires, or to the role of scientific activity in the commercial exploitation, civil government, or politica…
The International Council for Science Policy Studies
At the XIVth International Congress for the History of Science held in Tokyo/Kyoto, in August 1974, the International Commission for Science Policy Studies' was granted the status of an autonomous Section within the Division of History of Science of the International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science. The Commission was re-named the International Council for Science Policy Studies.2 The Statutes of the Council specify the aims and m…
The Scientists' Declaration: Reflexions on Science and Belief in the Wake of Essays and Reviews , 1864–5
During the decades following the publication of Darwin's Origin of species in 1859, religious belief in England and in particular the Church of England experienced some of the most intense criticism in its history. The early 1860s saw the appearance of Lyell's Evidence of the antiquity of man (1863), Tylor's research on the early history of mankind (1863), Renan's Vie de Jésus (1863), Pius IX's encyclical, Quanta cura , and the accompanying Sylla…
Perspectives on the Emergence of Scientific Disciplines
The disciplines represented in the twelve essays which comprise this book include agricultural chemistry, thermodynamics, physical chemistry, biophysics, x-ray protein crystallography, radio-astronomy, radar meteor research, and radio-astrono- my, in this order.There is also an editorial introduction which brings together and clarifies some of the important issues in the study of scientific disciplines.The overall aim is that historians and socio…
Strategies for Europe: Proposals for science and technology policies
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access ROY MACLEOD ROY MACLEOD Institute of Education, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCV, Issue CCCLXXVII, July 1980, Pages 924–926, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCV.CCCLXXVII.924 Published: 01 July 1980
The Parliamentary and scientific committee: The first forty years, 1939–1979
The 'Bankruptcy of Science' Debate: The Creed of Science and its Critics, 1885-1900
Scholars and Radicals
Science for Industry: A Short History of the Imperial College of Science and Technology
Critical Issues in the History of Canadian Science, Technology and Medicine
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