Philip Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3650452 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1207-3912 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1913 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Growing Up With Custer
This paper is an exercise in auto-ethnography, discussing in the first person the impact of the American general George Armstrong Custer (1839-76) upon the imagination of a boy growing up in sixties Yorkshire. It is based on the premise that no person can ever be understood in isolation from the influence that they have had on others. Three encounters with the Custer myth are described: the board game The Battle of the Little Big Horn; Robert Sio…
Prenatal maternal infections and early childhood developmental outcomes: Analysis of linked administrative health data for Greater Glasgow & Clyde, Scotland
BACKGROUND: Previous research has linked prenatal maternal infections to later childhood developmental outcomes and socioemotional difficulties. However, existing studies have relied on retrospectively self-reported survey data, or data on hospital-recorded infections only, resulting in gaps in data collection. METHODS: This study used a large linked administrative health dataset, bringing together data from birth records, hospital records, presc…
Examining the Potential Mediating Role of Maternal Mental Health in the Association Between Socioeconomic Deprivation and Child Development Outcomes
The association between SED and children's developmental outcomes appears to be partially mediated by maternal mental health, although the proportional-mediated effect was very small
Mother-Infant Attachment and Child Psychopathology: Insights from the Growing Up in Scotland Cohort
It may be possible to identify infants at risk of developing behavioural problems and to intervene early to improve outcomes. Atypical mother-infant attachment could be one indicator of risk. The primary aim of this study was to examine the association between self-assessed mother-infant attachment and the offspring ́s behavioural problems in childhood and early adolescence. This study was based on data from the first Growing up in Scotland (GUS)…
Philosophy of Religion: Taking Leave of the Abstract Domain
John Cottingham argues that traditional university modules in the philosophy of religion take us into a 'very abstract domain that is often far removed from religion as it actually operates in the life of the believer'. This paper makes four moves based on Cottingham. First, it argues that the application of Ludwig Wittgenstein's methods supports and facilitates a shift to the anthropological in the philosophy of religion (as evidenced in the wor…
Face-to-face vs. online delivery of the Lullaby Project: A therapeutic community music group for mothers of infants
Online delivery of community music groups has become more widely accepted following the COVID-19 pandemic, and may reduce barriers to attendance for certain demographics, including mothers with caring responsibilities. However, different interaction patterns may affect group processes, altering a programme’s underlying mechanisms of change when adapted for online delivery. This research compares in-person and videoconference delivery of the Lulla…
With great (statistical) power comes great responsibility: A comment on the ethics of using administrative data to investigate marginalised populations
As health data infrastructure improves, we have the opportunity to link increasing volumes of data in order to investigate important health problems. This is perhaps most pertinent when looking at the experiences and outcomes of our most disadvantaged groups, who are often invisible in data obtained through primary research. Whilst these data offer enormous opportunity, there are also ethical implications in their use, which are less frequently d…
Mellow Babies: A Randomised Feasibility Trial of an Intervention to Improve the Quality of Parent–Infant Interactions and Parental Mental Wellbeing
Mellow Babies aims to improve mothers' mental wellbeing and the quality of their interactions with their baby. The feasibility of a definitive trial of Mellow Babies was assessed using a waiting-list randomised pilot trial (Clinicaltrials.gov: NCT02277301). Mothers with substantial health/social care needs and a child aged p = 0.019), adjusted for pre-intervention scores. There was no significant improvement in mothers' mental wellbeing on any me…
Rurality, healthcare and crises: Investigating experiences, differences, and changes to medical care for people living in rural areas
Moving to the countryside and staying’? Exploring doctors’ migration choices to rural areas
Investigating low birth weight and preterm birth as potential mediators in the relationship between prenatal infections and early child development: A linked administrative health data analysis
Low birth weight and preterm birth appear to mediate the relationship between prenatal infections and childhood development, but only to a small extent. Maternal immune activation mechanisms unrelated to low birth weight and preterm birth remain the most likely explanation for associations observed between prenatal infections and child developmental outcomes, although other factors (for example, genetic factors) may also be involved
Trespassers Will Be Charmed on Sight: Nemesianus’s Eclogues as Apotropaic Magic
In this article, I present an interpretation of violent episodes in the pastoral poetry of the third-century Latin author, Nemesianus. Drawing on comparison to depictions of sexual violence on apotropaic amulets and art, I argue that Nemesianus intended his own poetry to showcase the apotropaic power of pastoral songs and pastoral books. In so doing, Nemesianus continues a tradition of ancient pastoral authors who expended considerable effort to …
A PRISMA systematic review of adolescent gender dysphoria literature: (3) Treatment
It is unclear whether the literature on adolescent gender dysphoria (GD) provides evidence to inform clinical decision making adequately. In the final of a series of three papers, we sought to review published evidence systematically regarding the types of treatment being implemented among adolescents with GD, the age when different treatment types are instigated, and any outcomes measured within adolescence. Having searched PROSPERO and the Coch…
Health-related quality of life of children from low-income families: The new patterns study
Baseline results regarding HRQoL among children and adolescents in low-income families indicate that they have overall good HRQoL, though some participants had low HRQoL scores, especially on the physical and social support dimensions. Children with an immigrant background report higher HRQoL than do children without an immigrant background
Economic composition and income volatility of Norwegian low-income families – a mixed method study of its implications
Background: There is a growing amount of research literature documenting increasing social inequality and an increase in the number of children growing up in families with persistently low income in all Scandinavian countries.However, there is a research gap on the issue of income composition; what the main income sources of low-income families are in relation to the families' position to the labour market and to the welfare state, and possible i…
A tale of two disciplines? Philosophy in/on translation
We describe the genesis of this special issue on ‘philosophy in/on translation’: a symposium led to the formation of a successful research group. The interface between philosophy and translation studies has become a fruitful research field, as evidenced by the growing number of conferences and publications. Research into translation and philosophy addresses three topics, as identified by Anthony Pym: what philosophers have said about translation;…
Evaluation of the Danish version of the prenatal parental reflective functioning questionnaire in early pregnancy as a screening tool
Parental reflective functioning (PRF) is the capacity to focus on feelings and experiences in oneself as a parent and in the child. Research has demonstrated that, the better the PRF the better outcomes for the child. This paper evaluated the Danish version of the prenatal parental reflective functioning questionnaire (P‐PRFQ). We used data from a cluster‐randomized trial of pregnant women recruited from Danish general practice. The sample includ…
A PRISMA systematic review of adolescent gender dysphoria literature: (1) Epidemiology
It is unclear whether the research literature on adolescent gender dysphoria (GD) provides sufficient evidence to adequately inform clinical decision making. In the first of a series of three papers, this study sought to systematically review published evidence regarding: the prevalence of GD in adolescence; the proportions of natal males/females with GD in adolescence and whether this changed over time; and the pattern of age at (a) onset (b) re…
A PRISMA systematic review of adolescent gender dysphoria literature: (2) Mental Health
It is unclear whether the literature on adolescent gender dysphoria (GD) provides sufficient evidence to inform clinical decision making adequately. In the second of a series of three papers, we sought to review published evidence systematically regarding the extent and nature of mental health problems recorded in adolescents presenting for clinical intervention for GD. Having searched PROSPERO and the Cochrane library for existing systematic rev…
Mapping Geographic Trends in Early Childhood Social, Emotional, and Behavioural Difficulties in Glasgow: 2010–2017
Measuring variation in childhood mental health supports the development of local early intervention strategies. The methodological approach used to investigate mental health trends (often determined by the availability of individual level data) can affect decision making. We apply two approaches to identify geographic trends in childhood social, emotional, and behavioural difficulties using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). SDQ …
Understanding recruitment and retention of doctors in rural Scotland: Stakeholder perspectives
Recruitment and retention of medical practitioners is a challenging contemporary policy issue for rural areas. In this paper we explore this issue in the context of doctors in rural and remote Scotland, drawing on findings from a service mapping exercise into the recruitment and retention of doctors in rural areas, conducted by interviewing key stakeholders in the delivery of healthcare in rural and remote Scotland, most of whom combine clinical …
Not Only Rivers and Mountains: Why Story Matters in New Area Studies
Area Studies was accused of storytelling, apparently an academic crime that merited its so-called demise. In this paper, I argue that storytelling is an integral part of academic writing in the humanities and that the rebirth of New Area Studies can be at least in part explained by its stress on narrative. Interdisciplinary investigation of story can help the field re-consolidate itself, because theoretical work can both describe and drive practi…
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What factors are most important for the development of the maternal–fetal relationship? A prospective study among pregnant women in Danish general practice
Pregnant women reporting lack of social support and general low physical and mental well-being early in pregnancy may be at risk for developing a poor MAA. An approach targeting both psychosocial and physiological well-being may positively influence expectant mothers' successful adaptation to motherhood
Readers and service commissioners require clear financial disclosures: Comment on innovation, research integrity, and change: A conflict of interest management framework for program developers (Sander…
Sanders et al.'s proposal for a management framework for conflicting interests among program developers is very welcome. The underlying principles of such a framework must nevertheless prioritise the need for researchers and commissioners of services to make objective assessments of the impact of interventions reported in journal articles. This is particularly important in the field of randomised trials which may influence public sector expenditu…
The Beginnings of Modern Ireland
In Thomond-In Ulster-Return of Kildare -Third Viceroyalty of St. Leger
Harry Laughlin's eugenic crusade to control the 'socially inadequate' in Progressive Era America
Harry H. Laughlin, champion of eugenic sterilization, immigration control and an idealized eugenics-based world government, became superintendent of the newly founded Eugenics Record Office (ERO) in 1910. For thirty years, he co-ordinated the gathering and use of family pedigree information in order to maintain a healthy reproductive stock among the American peoples. He expended considerable energy categorizing the 'socially inadequate', a group …
Understanding recruitment and retention of doctors in rural Scotland: Stakeholder perspectives
Recruitment and retention of medical practitioners is a challenging contemporary policy issue for rural areas. In this paper we explore this issue in the context of doctors in rural and remote Scotland, drawing on findings from a service mapping exercise into the recruitment and retention of doctors in rural areas, conducted by interviewing key stakeholders in the delivery of healthcare in rural and remote Scotland, most of whom combine clinical …
Randomisation before consent: Avoiding delay to time-critical intervention and ensuring informed consent
Obtaining informed consent can be challenging in stressful and urgent circumstances. One example is when potential participants have recently had their child removed into care; intervention is urgent and mandatory whereas participation in associated research is voluntary. Using a nested qualitative study, we examined experiences of consent processes in a randomised controlled trial of a family assessment and intervention service for maltreated yo…
Rurality, healthcare and crises: Investigating experiences, differences, and changes to medical care for people living in rural areas
Moving to the countryside and staying’? Exploring doctors’ migration choices to rural areas
Primary schools and the amplification of social differences in child mental health: A population-based cohort study
BACKGROUND: This paper examines socioeconomic inequalities in mental health at school entry and explores changes in these inequalities over the first 3 years of school. METHODS: The study utilises routinely collected mental health data from education records and demographic data at ages 4 and 7 years, along with administrative school-level data. The study was set in preschool establishments and schools in Glasgow City, Scotland. Data were availab…
Economic composition and income volatility of Norwegian low-income families – a mixed method study of its implications
Background: There is a growing amount of research literature documenting increasing social inequality and an increase in the number of children growing up in families with persistently low income in all Scandinavian countries.However, there is a research gap on the issue of income composition; what the main income sources of low-income families are in relation to the families' position to the labour market and to the welfare state, and possible i…
A tale of two disciplines? Philosophy in/on translation
We describe the genesis of this special issue on ‘philosophy in/on translation’: a symposium led to the formation of a successful research group. The interface between philosophy and translation studies has become a fruitful research field, as evidenced by the growing number of conferences and publications. Research into translation and philosophy addresses three topics, as identified by Anthony Pym: what philosophers have said about translation;…
Evaluation of the Danish version of the prenatal parental reflective functioning questionnaire in early pregnancy as a screening tool
Parental reflective functioning (PRF) is the capacity to focus on feelings and experiences in oneself as a parent and in the child. Research has demonstrated that, the better the PRF the better outcomes for the child. This paper evaluated the Danish version of the prenatal parental reflective functioning questionnaire (P‐PRFQ). We used data from a cluster‐randomized trial of pregnant women recruited from Danish general practice. The sample includ…
Partnership approaches to the evaluation of complex policy initiatives: Qualitative research as key to building effective relationships
We argue that major health and social care policy initiatives are not too complex for randomised controlled trial (RCT) methodology and illustrate this using the example of the Best Services Trial (BeST ? ): a RCT of an infant mental health intervention for maltreated children. We suggest that qualitative research, as a core part of the trial process from conception and development through to implementation and evaluation, is crucial in building,…
The impact of a new service for maltreated children on Children’s Hearings in Scotland: A qualitative study
In Scotland, the Children’s Hearing system determines the placement of maltreated children. A locally tailored version of the New Orleans Intervention for such children is about to be introduced in Glasgow. As part of an evaluation of its impact, an exploration was conducted of decision-making by children’s panel members, their possible role in the new intervention and their attitudes towards the changes. Interviews were held with focus groups an…
The Beginnings of Modern Ireland
In Thomond-In Ulster-Return of Kildare -Third Viceroyalty of St. Leger
English Ayres, 1598-1612, Transcribed and Edited from the Original Editions, Vol. I
English Ayres, Elizabethan and Jacobean, Transcribed and Edited from the Original Editions
English Ayres
Philosophic Whigs: Medicine, Science, and Citizenship in Edinburgh, 1789-1848 (review)
Reviewed by: Philosophic Whigs: Medicine, Science, and Citizenship in Edinburgh, 1789–1848 Philip K. Wilson L. S. Jacyna. Philosophic Whigs: Medicine, Science, and Citizenship in Edinburgh, 1789–1848. Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine. London: Routledge, 1994. vii + 213 pp. $89.95; £40.00. Biography remains one of the most enduring historiographic methods. L. S. Jacyna, in a work that may not be as apparently biographical as th…
The Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and Preformation
The Correspondence of James Jurin (1684-1750): Physician and Secretary to the Royal Society (review)
Reviewed by: The Correspondence of James Jurin (1684–1750): Physician and Secretary to the Royal Society. Philip K. Wilson Andrea A. Rusnock, ed. The Correspondence of James Jurin (1684–1750): Physician and Secretary to the Royal Society. Clio Medica, vol. 39. Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 1996. viii + 577 pp. $46.50; Hfl. 75.00 (paperbound). Although less known today, James Jurin was a prominen…
An Eighteenth Century Mad-Doctor: William Perfect of West Malling (review)
Reviewed by: An Eighteenth-Century Mad-Doctor: William Perfect of West Malling Philip K. Wilson Shirley Burgoyne Black. An Eighteenth-Century Mad-Doctor: William Perfect of West Malling. Sevenoaks, Kent, U.K.: Darenth Valley Publications, 1995. 85 pp. £3.95 (paperbound). Despite its alluring title, Black’s cradle-to-grave account of the “Mad Doctor,” William Perfect, adds precious little to the burgeoning field of psychiatric history. Rather, the…
Drugs on Trial: Experimental Pharmacology and Therapeutic Innovation in the Eighteenth Century. Vol. 53 of Clio Medica (review)
In our era of scholarship when some claim the experimental scientific method to be a myth, Andreas-Holger Maehle offers a remarkable historical contribution toward contextualizing the experimental foundation of medical therapeutics. Drugs on Trial is historiographically noteworthy in two important areas: (1) its elucidation of what European physicians and natural philosophers deemed as "experimental" evidence a century before historians generally…
Bodies of Evidence: Medicine and the Politics of the English Inquest, 1830-1926 (review)
University of Manchester research lecturer Ian Burney provides an extremely rich analysis of the complex and changing dynamic between scientific experts and the public regarding the coroner's postmortem inquest in England from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries. In five densely argued and well-supported chapters, he dissects and displays the tensions that arose between medical reformers and the public as the inquest became a fu…
A History of Surgery (review)
Following in the tradition of George Bankoff's The Story of Surgery (1947), W. J. Bishop's The Early History of Surgery (1960), and Knut M. Haeger's The Illustrated History of Surgery (1988), Harold Ellis's new volume chronologically surveys key developments in surgical practices throughout history. The author, a surgeon by training, is well known for his previous forays into his profession's heritage in works such as Surgical Case-Histories from…
"To Improve the Evidence of Medicine": The Eighteenth-Century British Origins of a Critical Approach (review)
Breeding Better Vermonters: The Eugenics Project in the Green Mountain State (review)
Eighteenth-Century "Monsters" and Nineteenth-Century "Freaks": Reading the Maternally Marked Child
The human genome, the body, and disability have attracted unprecedented levels of interdisciplinary academic interest in recent years. Literature abounds describing myriad concerns over human genetic research, its regulation, and subsequent implications for what is, at least figuratively, often referred to as the "Brave New World" in which we live. 1 Somewhat paradoxically, as technological advances steer many to gaze deeper into the hitherto inv…
Harry Laughlin's eugenic crusade to control the 'socially inadequate' in Progressive Era America
Harry H. Laughlin, champion of eugenic sterilization, immigration control and an idealized eugenics-based world government, became superintendent of the newly founded Eugenics Record Office (ERO) in 1910. For thirty years, he co-ordinated the gathering and use of family pedigree information in order to maintain a healthy reproductive stock among the American peoples. He expended considerable energy categorizing the 'socially inadequate', a group …
Science and Medicine in the Scottish Enlightenment (review)
The Scottish Enlightenment—a phenomenon centered around the cities and universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen—has captured considerable scholarly interest over the past three decades. The core of this scholarship has promulgated the view that the science and medicine of Enlightenment Scotland were intelligible only through a thorough appreciation of Scotland's social context; in other words, the enlightenment within science and medicine…
For Fear of Pain: British Surgery, 1790-1850 (review)
Reviewed by: For Fear of Pain: British Surgery, 1790-1850. Vol. 70 of Clio Medica Philip K. Wilson Peter Stanley . For Fear of Pain: British Surgery, 1790-1850. Vol. 70 of Clio Medica. Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2003. 362 pp. Ill. $95.00, €80.00 (cloth, 90-420-1034-7); $44.00, €37.00 (paperbound, 90-420-1024-X). Peter Stanley, principal historian at Australia's national military museum, has provided im…
Sambrook Court: The Letters of J. C. Lettsom at the Medical Society of London (review)
Reviewed by: Sambrook Court: The Letters of J. C. Lettsom at the Medical Society of London Philip K. Wilson Christopher Lawrence and Fiona A. Macdonald , eds. Sambrook Court: The Letters of J. C. Lettsom at the Medical Society of London. Occasional Publication no. 3. London: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, 2003. v + 320 pp. Ill. $24.00, £15.00 (paperbound, 0-85484-083-4). John Coakley Lettsom (1744–…
Can we evaluate population screening strategies in UK general practice? A pilot randomised controlled trial comparing postal and opportunistic screening for genital chlamydial infection
Study objective: To assess whether opportunistic and postal screening strategies for Chlamydia trachomatis can be compared with usual care in a randomised trial in general practice. Design: Feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial. Setting: Three West of Scotland general medical practices: one rural, one urban/deprived, and one urban/affluent. Participants: 600 women aged 16–30 years, 200 from each of three participating practices sele…
Confronting “Hereditary” Disease: Eugenic Attempts to Eliminate Tuberculosis in Progressive Era America
Designing and evaluating complex interventions to improve health care
Determining the effectiveness of complex interventions can be difficult and time consuming. Neil C Campbell and colleagues explain the importance of ground work in getting usable results
The Cattell Controversy: Race, Science, and Ideology
In 1997, the American Psychological Association (APA) selected the then ninety-two-year-old Raymond Cattell—the “father of personality trait measurement”—for their Life Achievement Award. Cries were quickly raised of Cattell's longstanding commitment to eugenics and racial segregation, and the plans for offering this award were abruptly halted. William H. Tucker—author of The Cattell Controversy—was present at the 1997 gathering, and his book off…
A Short History of Medical Genetics
Cardiff University's Human Genetics Professor Emeritus Peter S. Harper has created what is destined to become a classic work which captures the critical historical developments within genetics as applied to medicine, especially over the past fifty years. Having spent much of his life pursuing what has become a remarkably accomplished career in medical genetics, Harper noted the dearth of material preserved within an easily accessible resource to …
The impact of a new service for maltreated children on Children’s Hearings in Scotland: A qualitative study
In Scotland, the Children’s Hearing system determines the placement of maltreated children. A locally tailored version of the New Orleans Intervention for such children is about to be introduced in Glasgow. As part of an evaluation of its impact, an exploration was conducted of decision-making by children’s panel members, their possible role in the new intervention and their attitudes towards the changes. Interviews were held with focus groups an…
What predicts persistent early conduct problems? Evidence from the Growing Up in Scotland cohort
BACKGROUND: There is a strong case for early identification of factors predicting life-course-persistent conduct disorder. The authors aimed to identify factors associated with repeated parental reports of preschool conduct problems. METHOD: Nested case-control study of Scottish children who had behavioural data reported by parents at 3, 4 and 5 years. RESULTS: 79 children had abnormal conduct scores at all three time points ('persistent conduct …
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