Gareth Millward
Biographic Data
| ID | 6554255 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gareth Millward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gareth |
| FAMILY NAME | Millward |
| SIGNATURE | MILLWARD G |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2833-0442 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Fault or need? The UK’s approach to disability benefits since the Second World War
The UK social security system has never been based on disabled people’s needs. Rather, it has created several subcategories of disability based on medical assessments, insurance status and means testing. While this represents an example of the medical model of disability, the specifics of the system’s evolution since the 1940s are instructive. This article explains those developments in relation to the key national disability benefits, contrastin…
‘It's not for the children's sake’
Recently, the Danish Health Authority began recommending vaccinating children aged 2-6 years against seasonal influenza, underscoring the pivotal role of children in its transmission dynamics within the wider population and the need to protect vulnerable population groups after COVID-19. Under a third followed the recommendation. For the routine Danish childhood vaccine program coverage is usually well above 90%. Through a qualitative in-depth st…
Its many workers and subscribers feel that their services can still be of benefit’
Leagues of Friends are charities that provide 'personal service to patients' and 'supply hospitals with equipment not likely to come from the budgeting of authorities'. Hundreds continue to exist, and many trace their origins to before the NHS's foundation in 1948. Despite the rich and growing historiographies of voluntarism and the NHS, Leagues have received little attention. This article uses case studies of Leagues in the English West Midlands…
Injections-While-You-Dance’
This article discusses the production and dissemination of the emotive and informative messages promoting polio vaccination registration in Britain from 1956-1962 through the lens of public health press advertisements and posters. It argues that as the press reported on the problems which beset the vaccine campaign, and the various publics who could register for the polio vaccination multiplied, the campaign's content changed. Material was adapte…
Disability and the Welfare State in Britain
This book gives a comprehensive review of disability policies for ‘the general classes’ of disabled adults in the UK. In the British political tradition, these were those persons who were not entitled to war pensions, industrial injuries benefits, or the provisions of other specific pieces of legislation such as the Blind Persons Act. They did not gain proper recognition within the welfare state until the 1960s. This is the story of how that came…
Stuart Blume, Immunization
Blume’s latest book is a timely political intervention into the vaccination debate. He expertly summarises the history of vaccine technology and vaccination policy to explain how and why certain publics have questioned the need to vaccinate themselves or their children. The author outlines the role of public and private institutions, the dynamics between the global north and south and implores all those with a stake in public health to work to re…
A matter of commonsense’
In 1956, the British Ministry of Health instituted a vaccination programme against poliomyelitis, but run into myriad supply and administrative issues. When Coventry experienced an epidemic in 1957, it came to symbolise these problems. Throughout, it was claimed that the government lacked 'common sense'. This article explores how and why 'common sense' was used as a rhetorical weapon in the debates over policy at the local and national level. Whi…
A Disability Act? The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 and the British Government’s Response to the Pertussis Vaccine Scare
The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 provided a lump-sum social security benefit to children who had become severely disabled as a result of vaccination. It came in the wake of a scare over the safety of the whooping cough (pertussis) vaccine. Yet very little has been written about it. Existing literature focuses more on the public health and medical aspects of both the Act and the scare. This article uses material from the archives of disability…
Bob H. Reinhardt, The End of a Global Pox
On the jacket, Reinhardt’s monograph is described as something different. Instead of ‘offering a “biography” of the disease or employing a triumphalist narrative of a public health victory’, he provides us with a more nuanced tale of national interests, global politics and qualified successes. The author achieves this, and in doing so gives great insights into the evolving nature of the United States’ relationship with smallpox since the Second W…
Emma Newlands, Civilians Into Soldiers
Journal Article Emma Newlands, Civilians Into Soldiers: War, the Body and British Army Recruits, 1939–45 Get access Emma Newlands, Civilians Into Soldiers: War, the Body and British Army Recruits, 1939–45 Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014. Pp vii + 214. £75. ISBN: 978 0 7190 8804 9. Gareth Millward Gareth Millward London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxfor…
Social Security Policy and the Early Disability Movement--Expertise, Disability, and the Government, 1965-77
In 1965, the Disablement Income Group launched its National Disability Income campaign to fight for equal treatment of disabled people in the British social security system. By 1977, a series of benefits were created to cover the general population. Yet, despite the obvious political significance of these developments, very little research has focused on the early pan-impairment disability non-governmental organization (NGO). Existing scholarship…
Its many workers and subscribers feel that their services can still be of benefit’
Leagues of Friends are charities that provide 'personal service to patients' and 'supply hospitals with equipment not likely to come from the budgeting of authorities'. Hundreds continue to exist, and many trace their origins to before the NHS's foundation in 1948. Despite the rich and growing historiographies of voluntarism and the NHS, Leagues have received little attention. This article uses case studies of Leagues in the English West Midlands…
A Disability Act? The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 and the British Government’s Response to the Pertussis Vaccine Scare
The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 provided a lump-sum social security benefit to children who had become severely disabled as a result of vaccination. It came in the wake of a scare over the safety of the whooping cough (pertussis) vaccine. Yet very little has been written about it. Existing literature focuses more on the public health and medical aspects of both the Act and the scare. This article uses material from the archives of disability…
Social Security Policy and the Early Disability Movement--Expertise, Disability, and the Government, 1965-77
In 1965, the Disablement Income Group launched its National Disability Income campaign to fight for equal treatment of disabled people in the British social security system. By 1977, a series of benefits were created to cover the general population. Yet, despite the obvious political significance of these developments, very little research has focused on the early pan-impairment disability non-governmental organization (NGO). Existing scholarship…
A matter of commonsense’
In 1956, the British Ministry of Health instituted a vaccination programme against poliomyelitis, but run into myriad supply and administrative issues. When Coventry experienced an epidemic in 1957, it came to symbolise these problems. Throughout, it was claimed that the government lacked 'common sense'. This article explores how and why 'common sense' was used as a rhetorical weapon in the debates over policy at the local and national level. Whi…
Social Security Policy and the Early Disability Movement--Expertise, Disability, and the Government, 1965-77
In 1965, the Disablement Income Group launched its National Disability Income campaign to fight for equal treatment of disabled people in the British social security system. By 1977, a series of benefits were created to cover the general population. Yet, despite the obvious political significance of these developments, very little research has focused on the early pan-impairment disability non-governmental organization (NGO). Existing scholarship…
Emma Newlands, Civilians Into Soldiers
Journal Article Emma Newlands, Civilians Into Soldiers: War, the Body and British Army Recruits, 1939–45 Get access Emma Newlands, Civilians Into Soldiers: War, the Body and British Army Recruits, 1939–45 Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014. Pp vii + 214. £75. ISBN: 978 0 7190 8804 9. Gareth Millward Gareth Millward London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxfor…
A matter of commonsense’
In 1956, the British Ministry of Health instituted a vaccination programme against poliomyelitis, but run into myriad supply and administrative issues. When Coventry experienced an epidemic in 1957, it came to symbolise these problems. Throughout, it was claimed that the government lacked 'common sense'. This article explores how and why 'common sense' was used as a rhetorical weapon in the debates over policy at the local and national level. Whi…
A Disability Act? The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 and the British Government’s Response to the Pertussis Vaccine Scare
The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 provided a lump-sum social security benefit to children who had become severely disabled as a result of vaccination. It came in the wake of a scare over the safety of the whooping cough (pertussis) vaccine. Yet very little has been written about it. Existing literature focuses more on the public health and medical aspects of both the Act and the scare. This article uses material from the archives of disability…
Bob H. Reinhardt, The End of a Global Pox
On the jacket, Reinhardt’s monograph is described as something different. Instead of ‘offering a “biography” of the disease or employing a triumphalist narrative of a public health victory’, he provides us with a more nuanced tale of national interests, global politics and qualified successes. The author achieves this, and in doing so gives great insights into the evolving nature of the United States’ relationship with smallpox since the Second W…
Disability and the Welfare State in Britain
This book gives a comprehensive review of disability policies for ‘the general classes’ of disabled adults in the UK. In the British political tradition, these were those persons who were not entitled to war pensions, industrial injuries benefits, or the provisions of other specific pieces of legislation such as the Blind Persons Act. They did not gain proper recognition within the welfare state until the 1960s. This is the story of how that came…
Stuart Blume, Immunization
Blume’s latest book is a timely political intervention into the vaccination debate. He expertly summarises the history of vaccine technology and vaccination policy to explain how and why certain publics have questioned the need to vaccinate themselves or their children. The author outlines the role of public and private institutions, the dynamics between the global north and south and implores all those with a stake in public health to work to re…
Injections-While-You-Dance’
This article discusses the production and dissemination of the emotive and informative messages promoting polio vaccination registration in Britain from 1956-1962 through the lens of public health press advertisements and posters. It argues that as the press reported on the problems which beset the vaccine campaign, and the various publics who could register for the polio vaccination multiplied, the campaign's content changed. Material was adapte…
Its many workers and subscribers feel that their services can still be of benefit’
Leagues of Friends are charities that provide 'personal service to patients' and 'supply hospitals with equipment not likely to come from the budgeting of authorities'. Hundreds continue to exist, and many trace their origins to before the NHS's foundation in 1948. Despite the rich and growing historiographies of voluntarism and the NHS, Leagues have received little attention. This article uses case studies of Leagues in the English West Midlands…
‘It's not for the children's sake’
Recently, the Danish Health Authority began recommending vaccinating children aged 2-6 years against seasonal influenza, underscoring the pivotal role of children in its transmission dynamics within the wider population and the need to protect vulnerable population groups after COVID-19. Under a third followed the recommendation. For the routine Danish childhood vaccine program coverage is usually well above 90%. Through a qualitative in-depth st…
Fault or need? The UK’s approach to disability benefits since the Second World War
The UK social security system has never been based on disabled people’s needs. Rather, it has created several subcategories of disability based on medical assessments, insurance status and means testing. While this represents an example of the medical model of disability, the specifics of the system’s evolution since the 1940s are instructive. This article explains those developments in relation to the key national disability benefits, contrastin…
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Government (linguistics (4 works) · History (4 works) · Public health (4 works) · Virology (4 works)