Mildred Blaxter
Biographic Data
| ID | 250493 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mildred Blaxter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mildred |
| FAMILY NAME | Blaxter |
| SIGNATURE | BLAXTER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2861-949X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 283 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Works of Illness
Radley, A. Works of Illness: Narrative, picturing and the social response to serious disease . Ashby-de-la-Zouch : InkerMan Press 2009 £13.95 (pbk ) 240 pp . IBSN 978-0-9562749-0-8 This unusual book, the author tells us, is a record of ten years’ study of a neglected topic, sometimes using books and papers which Radley has already published. It is original and scholarly, well illustrated, and brings together aesthetic and philosophical approaches…
The case of the vanishing patient? Image and experience
It has been argued that the new technologies of medicine privilege the image over the actual body and its experience, so that the patients themselves may 'vanish' behind the images. A case study is used to explore this from the patient's point of view. What evidence is there that alienation or other dysfunctional effects can actually happen? In this example of the high-tech medicine of lung cancer treatment, it was demonstrable that the process o…
Lifestyle in Medicine ‐ by Hanson, E. and Easthope, G
Hanson, E. and Easthope, G. Lifestyle in Medicine . Abingdon : Routledge 2007 £21.99 xiii + 192pp . ISBN 978-0-415-53685-5 (pbk) A perhaps provocative suggestion: would it not be good if, sociologically, we could get rid of the word ‘lifestyles’? Like the other weasel word, ‘behaviour’– indeed, like much of sociological jargon – it has connotations in everyday speech that are confusing to non-sociologists and difficult to avoid. In the case of ‘l…
Commentary on ‘a Reflexive Account of Reusing Qualitative Data
[No abstract]
Understanding health inequalities
I want to offer a brief account of a journey from ‘Transmitted Deprivation’ to ‘Social Capital’—a personal journey, a journey which many people have shared. At first sight, inequalities in health d
Health and Lifestyles
What is a `healthy' lifestyle? Which is more significant: the social circumstances in which people live, or lifestyle habits such as exercise or smoking? Health and Lifestyles is the first description of a large and representative survey of the British population asking just those questions. It examines the findings, and considers issues such as measured fitness, declared health, psychological status, life circumstances, health-related behaviour,…
Commentaries on Coburn ‘The role of
Medical sociology at the start of the new millennium
Risk, health and social research
This exercise in ‘the sociology of social research’ considers the programme of studies on Risk and Human Behaviour set up by the British Economic and Social Research Council in 1993. It is not intended to be an evaluation of that programme: its purpose is, firstly, to speculate on how a publicly funded programme on risk came about, and what the place of health was in the definitions of risk which were used. Secondly, a superficial analysis of all…
Whose fault is it? People's own conceptions of the reasons for health inequalities
Fifty years on - Inequalities in Health
(1991). Fifty years on - Inequalities in Health. Population Studies: Vol. 45, No. sup1, pp. 69-94
R. Totman, Social Causes of Illness (Book)
Social Support
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Social Life of Britain's Five-year-olds (Book)
Compliance and risk-taking
This paper describes an exploratory study of 'compliance' with doctors' advice in an extreme situation: reduction of drinking, or abstention from alcohol, in patients with alcoholic liver disease. A preliminary postal survey had suggested that at least three-quarters of these patients continued to drink. An intensive interview study explored the reasons for this. Only a minority of the patients were identified as alcoholic, or had a history sugge…
Mothers and Daughters
Missing pieces
From Dr Mildred Blaxter
The causes of disease
Health services as a defence against the consequences of poverty in industrialised societies
Prevention of handicap and the health of women
The Making of Blind Men
Compensation and rehabilitation
Responding to Drinking Problems (Book)
Response diagnosis as a means of health forecasting
The causes of disease
Whose fault is it? People's own conceptions of the reasons for health inequalities
The case of the vanishing patient? Image and experience
It has been argued that the new technologies of medicine privilege the image over the actual body and its experience, so that the patients themselves may 'vanish' behind the images. A case study is used to explore this from the patient's point of view. What evidence is there that alienation or other dysfunctional effects can actually happen? In this example of the high-tech medicine of lung cancer treatment, it was demonstrable that the process o…
Health services as a defence against the consequences of poverty in industrialised societies
Works of Illness
Radley, A. Works of Illness: Narrative, picturing and the social response to serious disease . Ashby-de-la-Zouch : InkerMan Press 2009 £13.95 (pbk ) 240 pp . IBSN 978-0-9562749-0-8 This unusual book, the author tells us, is a record of ten years’ study of a neglected topic, sometimes using books and papers which Radley has already published. It is original and scholarly, well illustrated, and brings together aesthetic and philosophical approaches…
Medical sociology at the start of the new millennium
Compliance and risk-taking
This paper describes an exploratory study of 'compliance' with doctors' advice in an extreme situation: reduction of drinking, or abstention from alcohol, in patients with alcoholic liver disease. A preliminary postal survey had suggested that at least three-quarters of these patients continued to drink. An intensive interview study explored the reasons for this. Only a minority of the patients were identified as alcoholic, or had a history sugge…
From Dr Mildred Blaxter
Fifty years on - Inequalities in Health
(1991). Fifty years on - Inequalities in Health. Population Studies: Vol. 45, No. sup1, pp. 69-94
Health 'On the Welfare' - A Case Study
A welfare benefit concerns a 'need' which a society has decided 'ought' to be met. What match is there between the system of welfare which has been laid down by legislation, and the way in which the members of society who are the potential recipients conceive of it? If, as Titmuss has said, definitions of needs are the interdependent manifestations 'first, of society's wish to survive as an organic whole and, secondly, of the expressed wish of al…
Health 'On the Welfare' - A Case Study
A welfare benefit concerns a 'need' which a society has decided 'ought' to be met. What match is there between the system of welfare which has been laid down by legislation, and the way in which the members of society who are the potential recipients conceive of it? If, as Titmuss has said, definitions of needs are the interdependent manifestations 'first, of society's wish to survive as an organic whole and, secondly, of the expressed wish of al…
An Alcoholic in the Family
Impairment, Disability and handicap
Diagnosis as category and process
Diagnosis as category and process
The Meaning of Disability
Response diagnosis as a means of health forecasting
Diagnosis as a means of health forecasting
Symposium on the Handling of Qualitative Data (Warwick, September 1977)
Compensation and rehabilitation
Responding to Drinking Problems (Book)
Prevention of handicap and the health of women
The Making of Blind Men
Mothers and Daughters
Missing pieces
From Dr Mildred Blaxter
The causes of disease
Health services as a defence against the consequences of poverty in industrialised societies
Compliance and risk-taking
This paper describes an exploratory study of 'compliance' with doctors' advice in an extreme situation: reduction of drinking, or abstention from alcohol, in patients with alcoholic liver disease. A preliminary postal survey had suggested that at least three-quarters of these patients continued to drink. An intensive interview study explored the reasons for this. Only a minority of the patients were identified as alcoholic, or had a history sugge…
The Social Life of Britain's Five-year-olds (Book)
Social Support
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
R. Totman, Social Causes of Illness (Book)
Fifty years on - Inequalities in Health
(1991). Fifty years on - Inequalities in Health. Population Studies: Vol. 45, No. sup1, pp. 69-94
Whose fault is it? People's own conceptions of the reasons for health inequalities
Risk, health and social research
This exercise in ‘the sociology of social research’ considers the programme of studies on Risk and Human Behaviour set up by the British Economic and Social Research Council in 1993. It is not intended to be an evaluation of that programme: its purpose is, firstly, to speculate on how a publicly funded programme on risk came about, and what the place of health was in the definitions of risk which were used. Secondly, a superficial analysis of all…
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