Richard M Titmuss
Biographic Data
| ID | 5540162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard M Titmuss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard M |
| FAMILY NAME | Titmuss |
| SIGNATURE | TITMUSS R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 88 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 194 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 88 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1939 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Helping the Aged: A Field Experiment in Social Work
The gift relationship (reissue): From Human Blood to Social Policy
In this reissued classic, Richard Titmuss compares blood donation in the US and UK, contrasting the British system of reliance on voluntary donors to the American one in which the blood supply is in the hands of for-profit enterprises, concluding that a system based on altruism is safer and more economically efficient.
Essays on The Welfare State
The right to give
This concluding chapter provides some interpretative comment on the responses of the voluntary blood donors recorded in the preceding chapter and relates certain issues of principle and practice raised in this book's study to the potential role that governmental social policy can play in preserving and extending the freedom of the individual. Practically all the voluntary donors employed a moral vocabulary to explain their reasons for giving bloo…
Analysis of blood donor motives
The demand for blood in England and Wales and the United States
This chapter examines the demand for blood in England and Wales and the United States. Between 1948 and 1967, the annual number of donations of blood in England and Wales rose by 269 per cent. Some part of this increase in supply has met the increase in the amount of blood actually demanded and used per 100 patients treated in hospitals. Meanwhile, estimates have been made that 5,100,000 pints of blood were collected in the United States in 1956 …
The characteristics of blood donors in England and Wales
This chapter explores the characteristics of blood donors in England and Wales, considering a study made in the summer and autumn of 1967 with the assistance of the Ministry of Health and the National Blood Transfusion Service. The study examines regional trends and statistics relating to donor populations and donor reporting rates for the general public, institutions — comprising factories, offices, and universities — and the Defence Services. T…
The characteristics of blood donors in England and Wales
Economic man: Social man
Blood donors in the Soviet Union and other countries
This chapter focuses on blood donors in the Soviet Union and other countries. About half of all blood supplies in the Soviet Union are obtained from unpaid donors at factories, offices, colleges and palaces of culture, and other institutions. They are recruited by the Union of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Donors are allowed a day off work to give their donation and a free meal afterwards; they are also given an extra day's holiday which,…
The characteristics of blood donors in the United States
Introduction: Human blood and social policy
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the study of the beliefs, attitudes, and values concerning blood and its possession, inheritance, and use and loss in diverse societies. The study originated and grew over many years of introspection from a series of value questions formulated within the context of attempts to distinguish the ‘social’ from the ‘economic’ in public policies and in those institutions and services with declared ‘welf…
The right to give
The gift
The supply of blood in England and Wales and the United States
This chapter assesses the supply of blood in England and Wales and the United States. It presents the main national statistics in the increase in blood donation between the introduction of the National Health Service in 1948 and 1968. Whereas in some countries at the end of the 1940s blood transfusion services were in an early stage of development, in England and Wales they had been expanded earlier. The effects of the Second World War, particula…
Endnotes
Economic man: Social man
This chapter examines criteria of economic efficiency, administrative efficiency, costs per unit of blood, and purity, potency, and safety in relation to the blood distributive systems in the United States and Britain. Looked at simply in economic terms, the ‘cost’ of any activity is the most valuable use to which the resources devoted to it might otherwise have been put. Estimates made by the National Blood Resource Program and other authorities…
Who is my stranger?
This chapter explores the social and economic aspects of gift-exchange as a universal phenomenon. Examples drawn from both complex and traditional societies indicate that the personal gift and counter-gift, in which givers and receivers are known to each other and personally communicate with each other, is characterised by a great variety of sentiments and purposes. At one end of the spectrum, economic purposes may be dominant as in some forms of…
Blood and the law of the marketplace
A study of blood donor motivation in South Africa
Donor survey questionnaire
Notes on the use of blood in the United States and England and Wales in 1956
The Donor Survey: The characteristics of Donors
Notes on blood and blood transfusion services in England and Wales
Blood and the law of the marketplace
This chapter discusses the application of the values of the marketplace to human blood. American and British economists are making an economic case against a monopoly of altruism in blood and other human tissues. They wish to set people free from the conscience of obligation. Although their arguments are couched in the language of price elasticity and profit-maximisation, they have far-reaching implications for human values and all ‘social servic…
Commitment to Welfare
Welfare “Rights”, Law and Discretion
Income Distribution and Social Change
Income Distribution and Social Change
Pension Systems and Population Change
Social Policies and Population Growth in Mauritius
The Welfare State: Images and Realities
Birth, Poverty and Wealth
Journal Article Birth, Poverty and Wealth Get access Birth, Poverty and Wealth. By R. M. TITMUSS. (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1943. Pp. 118. 7s. 6d.) D. G. Champernowne D. G. Champernowne King's College, Cambridge. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 54, Issue 213, 1 April 1944, Pages 126–129, https://doi.org/10.2307/2959843 Published: 01 April 1944
The Economic and Social Structure of Mauritius
Journal Article J. E. Meade The Economic and Social Structure of Mauritius.; R. M. Titmuss and B. Abel-Smith Social Policies and Population Growth in Mauritius Get access The Economic and Social Structure of Mauritius. By J. E. Meade et al. New impression. (London: Frank Cass, 1968. Pp. xviii + 246. 60s.)Social Policies and Population Growth in Mauritius. By R. M. Titmuss and B. Abel-Smith, assisted by T. Lynes. New impression. (London: Frank Cas…
Social Administration in a Changing Society
r NHE DECISION of the IJniversity of London to create a new chair in Social Administration was an expression, I suppose, of the import< i ance of the social services teday in the life of the community. It was also perhaps a sign that, in the eyes of the University authorities, the subject had advanced to a respectable age and had acquired some academically respectable disciples; that it had grown out of its former preoccupation with good works fo…
Ethics and Economics of Medical Care
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Mauritius at the Crossroads
Poverty and Population
Income Distribution and Social Change: A Critical Study in British Statistics
Industrialization and the Family
The Cost of the National Health Service in England and Wales
Originally published in 1956, as number 17 in the Occasional Papers of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research series, this book presents an investigation into the cost of the National Health Service. Using the technique of 'social accounting', the text was written 'to trace for the National Health Service as a whole in England and Wales, and for each of its main branches, the changes in factor cost and in the amount of resources a…
Federalism, Finance and Social Legislation. Canada, Australia and the United States
Poverty and Population
Poverty and Population
Parents Revolt. A Study of the Declining Birth-Rate in Acquisitive Societies
The New Population Statistics
Population
Birth, Poverty and Wealth
Birth, Poverty and Wealth
Journal Article Birth, Poverty and Wealth Get access Birth, Poverty and Wealth. By R. M. TITMUSS. (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1943. Pp. 118. 7s. 6d.) D. G. Champernowne D. G. Champernowne King's College, Cambridge. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 54, Issue 213, 1 April 1944, Pages 126–129, https://doi.org/10.2307/2959843 Published: 01 April 1944
Medical Statistics from Graunt to Farr
Wartime Social Policy
Social Administration in a Changing Society
r NHE DECISION of the IJniversity of London to create a new chair in Social Administration was an expression, I suppose, of the import< i ance of the social services teday in the life of the community. It was also perhaps a sign that, in the eyes of the University authorities, the subject had advanced to a respectable age and had acquired some academically respectable disciples; that it had grown out of its former preoccupation with good works fo…
Social Medicine
The Cost of Sickness and the Price of Health
Trends of Opinion about the Public Health 1901-51
Pension Systems and Population Change
Federalism, Finance and Social Legislation. Canada, Australia and the United States
The Social Welfare Forum, 1954
Social Security in the British Commonwealth
The Cost of the National Health Service in England and Wales
Originally published in 1956, as number 17 in the Occasional Papers of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research series, this book presents an investigation into the cost of the National Health Service. Using the technique of 'social accounting', the text was written 'to trace for the National Health Service as a whole in England and Wales, and for each of its main branches, the changes in factor cost and in the amount of resources a…
The Administration of Health Insurance in Canada
The Cost of the National Health Service in England and Wales
Industrialization and the Family
Patients, Physicians and Illness
Essays on 'The Welfare State
Essays on `The Welfare State
Mauritius at the Crossroads
Political science (44 works) · Law (35 works) · Economics (34 works) · Sociology (33 works) · Blood donation and transfusion practices (26 works) · Medicine (23 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Business (15 works) · Law (15 works) · Geography (14 works)