Regenerating England: science, medicine and culture in inter-war Britain

Fifty years of JN Morris's Uses of Epidemiology.

Public Health 2005;95:602–10. 23 Morris JN et al. Coronary heart-disease and physical activity of work. Lancet 1953;257:1053–57. 24 Berridge V, Morris JN. Int J Epidemiol 2001;30:1141–45. 25 Murphy S. The early days of the MRC social medicine research unit. Soc Hist Med 1999;12:389–406. 26 Porter D. The social contract of health in the twentieth and twenty first centuries. In: Susan GS, Patrick...

National Health Service Principles as Experienced by Vulnerable London Migrants in “Austerity Britain”: A Qualitative Study of Rights, Entitlements, and Civil-Society Advocacy

Background Recent British National Health Service (NHS) reforms, in response to austerity and alleged ‘health tourism,’ could impose additional barriers to healthcare access for non-European Economic Area (EEA) migrants. This study explores policy reform challenges and implications, using excerpts from the perspectives of non-EEA migrants and health advocates in London.   Methods A qualitative ...

Psychoanalysis and Crime in Britain during the Inter-war Years

The meaning of fractures: orthopaedics and the reform of British hospitals in the inter-war period.

It is not immediately obvious that any history of the treatment of fractures could significantly illuminate the development of twentieth-century medicine. Could such a history be much more than a chronicle of therapeutic traditions, technical advances, and forgotten pioneers? That would indeed be desolately dry-boned, even by the standards of "internal" medical historiography.1 But any such ass...

Hidden worlds of the early knowledge economy: libraries in British companies before the middle of the 20th century

The ‘knowledge economy’ is a key facet of the proposition that Western societies have entered a fundamentally new phase of development as a result of rapid advances in digital technology. However, this proposition underplays the historic importance of knowledge to economic activity and performance. One example of the past intersection of knowledge transfer and economic development is the in-hou...