Two's company, three's none, or so they say. The relationship between general practice and
its other two bedfellows in the National Health Service (local health authority and hospi-tal …

In the early 1970s, the consumption of both prescribed and non-prescribed medicines in
Britain was increasing. Originally published in 1972, this book takes a look at the medicine …

Originally published in 1964, this book describes the hospital service as it is seen by
patients. It is based mainly on interviews with a random sample of patients and discusses the …

Since death is an experience which will inevitably be common to us all, we are often surprisingly
uninterested in what services are provided for those people, often the elderly and infirm, …

Originally published in 1979, this study looks at the experience of childbearing from three
viewpoints: first and foremost from that of the childbearing women; but in addition it considers …

Importance Despite evidence of efficacious psychological and pharmacologic therapies for
insomnia, there is little information about what first-line treatment should be and how best to …

After drawing attention to the considerable amount of psychiatric morbidity in medical wards
you state that" most of these disorders probablyrequire no more special skill than could be …

Studies based on random samples of adult deaths in 1969 and 1987 show that, although
more people in the recent study were living alone in the year before they die (32 per cent …

A basic feature of the work of the Institute for Social Studies in Medical Care (formerly the
Medical Care Research Unit of the Institute of Community Studies) is that, in its studies of the …

… Ann Cartwright’s earlier book Patients and their Doctors. In General Practice Revisited, originally
published in 1981, Ann Cartwright and … up-to-date Ann Cartwright and Robert Anderson …