Ann Cartwright

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Ann Cartwright (born 1925) is a British statistician and socio-medical researcher. Her Institute for Social Studies in Medical Care was launched by

Institute of Community Studies where Cartwright went to work in 1960.[1][2]

The Institute produced numerous books and reports for the Department of Health which explored issues with the use and perception of primary medical care in Britain.[3] One report (Medicine Takers, Prescribers & Hoarders, 1972) was written with Karen Dunnell, now the UK's National Statistician.[4] Others included Patients & Their Doctors (1967), Parent & Family Planning Services (1970), Life Before Death (1973, with Hockey & Anderson and The Role of Residential and Nursing Homes in the Last Year of People's Lives (1988).

Cartwright retired in 1993 and the Institute was subsequently disbanded.

References

  1. ^ "Patients are Human". The Sydney Morning Herald. 3 February 1965. Retrieved 17 February 2011.
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