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William Pulteney Alison : activist philanthropist and pioneer of social medicine
No full textThe thesis looks in detail at three inter-related aspects of
Alison's life. It examines, firstly, his role in the development
of Edinburgh's rudimentary 'health' network, achieved through the
expansion of the existing medical charity structure and the
introduction of a more interventionist and coordinated approach to
the city's health problems. It traces, secondly, the development
of Alison's social thought - in 1820 he believed that medical and
practical relief for the poor could and should be supplied through
the voluntary charities and only when that proved unsatisfactory
through the poor law, whereas by 1840 he argued that public health
should be the responsibility of government and that the excessive
increase in poverty and disease in Scotland, which he believed had
occurred, was proof that the charitable and legal relief provided
was inadequate. Finally, Alison's influence on the passage of
Scottish poor law and public health legislation in the 1840s and
1850s is examined - the latter involving an assessment of how far
he was responsible for the legislative delay. The poor law debate,
1840-1845, which reveals the forces shaping the reform and the
prevailing attitudes to poverty, highlights the challenge which
Alison's opinions represented and the resulting turmoil in Scottish
social thinking, while his reasons for opposing health legislation,
which established London control are of great importance. They
reveal differences in the rationale behind, and way in which, the
concept of public health was developed in Scotland and England.
Unlike Chadwick and his supporters, Alison emphasised poverty
amelioration and sanitary reform. Part of the explanation for the
differing opinions lay in their respective miasmatic and
contagionist theories for fever generation, but it also reflects,
perhaps more significantly, the impact of European medical police
ideas on Scottish medical opinion - Alison's view of public health
closely resembled that of the French hygienists
Letter from Edwin E. Ferguson, Regional Attorney, War Relocation Authority, to Ernest Besig, Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, November 25, 1942
No full textLetter from Edwin E. Ferguson to Ernest Besig, in which Ferguson writes that the San Francisco War Relocation Authority office will be moving to Washington. Ferguson expresses fondness for Besig.The ACLU-Northern California case file records contain legal documents and correspondence pertaining to the case argued before the Supreme Court in Korematsu v. United States (1944), challenging the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066
Ferguson School District No. 4573
No full textPhotograph - A view of Ferguson School building near Athabasca, Alberta. ATS 24-66-21-W
Introducing the International Palliative Nursing Network
No full text During the Ninth International Cancer Nursing Conference held in Brighton last year, an evening symposium was hosted by Alison Ferguson and Jeanette Webber on behalf of the Royal College of Nursing Palliative Nursing Group in the United Kingdom. The purpose of the meeting was to enable delegates to explore the possibility of developing an International Palliative Nursing Network (IPNN). Thirty two nurses from fifteen countries attended the symposium and there was a strong consensus that the development of the Network was both timely and viable. </jats:p
Ferguson School District No. 4573 - 02
No full textPhotograph - A group of pupils with baseball equipment from Ferguson School. ATS 24-66-21-W
Wyong dairy farms, Alison Estate [cartographic material] : aggregating about 2000 acres : for sale by public auction at Royal Hotel Wyong on Saturday 28th November at 2.30 p.m. /
No full textSales plan for land around Wyong, N.S.W.; "Torrens title."; "Liberal terms."; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-lfsp3070.Alison Estat
Improving the quality of type 2 diabetes care for your community
No full textThis is a summary of important findings from a continuous quality improvement (CQI) program for type 2 diabetes care in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care (PHC). The program has been in place for more than 10 years, with 175 health centres across Australia giving the ABCD National Research Partnership permission to analyse data from this program.
The ABCD National Research Partnership works across states and territories in Australia to improve the quality of primary health care available to Indigenous people.
Researchers looked at data from clinical audits in community controlled, government and non-government health centres in very remote, remote, and non-remote areas. Over a number of years they measured and compared the following five items of type 2 diabetes care:
1 laboratory tests
2 physical checks by the health centre team
3 physical checks by specialists
4 brief interventions for nutrition and exercise
5 education and counselling interventions for tobacco and high-risk alcohol use.
This document contains two research briefs containing:
A summary of research findings for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers/Health Practitioners
A summary of research findings for Community Health Board
Ferguson-Smith, Malcolm: transcript of a video interview (06-Jun-2015)
No full textInterview with Professor Malcolm Ferguson-Smith, conducted by Ms Emma M. Jones, for the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, 06 June 2015, in Glasgow. Transcribed by Mrs Debra Gee, and edited by Professor Tilli Tansey and Mr Alan Yabsley. The project management was undertaken by Mr Adam Wilkinson. Professor Malcolm Ferguson-Smith (b. 1931) is Emeritus Professor of Pathology, University of Cambridge. He graduated in medicine at Glasgow University in 1955 and, while undertaking postgraduate training there in pathology, was introduced to research on sex chromatin under Bernard Lennox. An interest in Klinefelter’s syndrome in 1957 to 1958 led to his appointment as Fellow in Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, in 1959, where he established the first chromosome diagnostic service in the USA, and undertook cytogenetic research into Turner syndrome. Research interests include molecular cytogenetics, karyotype evolution, vertebrate sex determination and comparative genomics. He is joint author of 'Essential Medical Genetics'.The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group is funded by the Wellcome Trust, which is a registered charity (no. 210183). The current interview has been funded by the Wellcome Trust Strategic Award entitled “Makers of modern biomedicine: testimonies and legacy” (2012-2017; awarded to Professor Tilli Tansey)
FNC: The Experience | Ferguson Plain\u27s Final Storytelling Workshop
No full textArtist and author Ferguson Plain reads his book Eagle Feather: An Honour and tells a story.https://first.fanshawec.ca/firstnationscentre_visualcontent_videos_theexperience/1010/thumbnail.jp
The Rise of Public Health in the Popular Periodical Press: The Political Medicine of W. P. Alison, Robert Gooch, and Robert Ferguson
No full textThis chapter examines the construction of the ‘political medicine’ of William Pulteney Alison (1790–1859) and Robert Gooch (1784–1830) and its development and popular dissemination through Blackwood’s. This humanistic ‘political medicine’ critiqued liberal political economists and utilitarianism and promoted the importance of moral feelings and Christian sentiments in informing public health policy. Alison’s contribution to the debates regarding poor law reform and Gooch’s proposal for a religious order of nurses – a project supported by his friend Robert Southey – are discussed as components within a progressive Tory social medicine. By way of contrast, the chapter closes with an examination of Robert Ferguson (1799–1865), the key medical contributor to the Quarterly Review from 1829 to 1854. Although Ferguson also contributed to what David Roberts terms ‘the social conscience of Tory periodicals’, writing on issues relevant to public health and promoting a paternalistic approach, his writings more clearly reflect the counter-revolutionary agenda of the Quarterly, as opposed to the more explicit humanism of Blackwood’s.</p
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