Social Security Booklet (c) Archives New Zealand
Michaelmas Term 2012 History of Medicine Seminar Series
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine,
Seminar Room, 47 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PE
The following seminars will be held at on Mondays at 2.15pm
Coffee will be available from 2.00pm
‘Health and Medicine in Britain and its Empire’
Convener: Professor Mark Harrison
Week 2 – 15 October
John Stewart, Glasgow Caledonian University
“Some Abstract Socialist Idea or Principle”: The Impact of New Zealand’s 1938 Social Security Act on British Thinking about Health Care Reform
About the Speaker
Professor John Stewart is Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare Director and Professor of Health History at Glasgow Caledonian University. His research interests range broadly across modern British history, focussing in particular on the history of health care provision and social policy, with an associated emphasis on the history of child welfare. Specific research topics have included: municipal medicine in inter-war England and Wales; child evacuation policies in wartime Scotland; and welfare provision in ‘peripheral’ areas of the United Kingdom and Europe.
Selected Publications
- Taking stock : Scottish social welfare after devolution (Bristol, Policy Press, 2004) Copy held in Bodleian Social Science Library
- ‘The Scientific Claims of British Child Guidance, 1918-1945′, British Journal for the History of Science, 42, 3, 2009
- ‘The Political Economy of the British National Health Service, 1945-1975: Opportunities and Constraints?’, Medical History, 52, 4, 2008
Related Links
- SOLO Library Catalogue – Search Oxford Libraries Online
- Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine events webpage
- Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare