Mildred Blaxter
Mildred Blaxter
MILDRED BLAXTER MA, FPH. - a member of the staff of the MRC Medical Sociology Unit, Aberdeen, 1972-82, where the research referred to in these papers was done; subsequently at the Universities of Cambridge and East Anglia, 1982-2002. Currently Honorary Professor in the Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol. Editor of Sociology of Health and Illness (1987-94), and Senior Editor Sociology of Social Science and Medicine (1994-2006) Publications have included the topics of lay perceptions of health, inequalities in health, narratives of health, disability and chronic illness, lifestyles, social capital theory, and the methodology of qualitative research.
United Kingdom