Vera Carstairs
Vera Dorris Lilian Carstairs (
Personal life
Vera Hunt was born in
She married on 14 December 1950 Morris Carstairs, a physician, psychiatrist and anthropologist who had been brought up in India. The couple moved to Sujarupa, a Hindu hamlet in Rajputana, beginning an anthropological study lasting for 32 years until publication (as The Death of a Witch (1983) under the sole name G. M. Carstairs).[4] In 1951, at "Deoli" (pseudonym) in Rajasthan, Vera was involved in a house-to-house survey, with a member of the panchayat, checking on census results, for research included in her husband's Twice-born: a study of a community of high-caste Hindus (1958).[5]
Morris Carstairs was appointed a senior registrar at Maudsley Hospital, London, in 1953; in 1961 he took a chair of psychological medicine at the University of Edinburgh. The couple had three children. The marriage broke down during the 1970s, ending in divorce. Morris Carstairs later married the academic Nancy Shields Hardin.[4][2]
Career
Vera Carstairs was employed as a Principal Research Officer for the Scottish Home and Health Department from 1966 to 1975.[6] In later years she was associated with Edinburgh University Medical School, and acted as Scottish health services research network coordinator.
She was chairperson of the Society for Social Medicine and Population Health in 1982, and is on their list of honorary members.[6][7] In 1995 she was awarded an honorary degree as Doctor of Medicine by the University of Edinburgh.[8] She was also a member of the Social Research Association.[6]
Work on deprivation
In 1981, shortly after a paper Multiple deprivation and health state, Carstairs published a paper on
At the time of their 1989 joint paper on
The Carstairs Deprivation Index, as it is now known, was developed at this period, by substituting in the
Other works
In the series of Scottish Health Service Studies, Carstairs was author of:
- Study #1, Patients under Psychiatric Care in Hospital: Scotland 1963 (1966), with Alwyn Smith[18]
- Study #2, Home Nursing in Scotland: Report of an Enquiry into Local Authority Domiciliary Services (1966)[19]
- Study #11, Channels of Communication (1970).[19] By 1966, Carstairs at work in Scottish hospitals had recognised communication as a problem.[20]
- Study #19, The Elderly in Residential Care (1971) of care models for the elderly, with Marion Morrison.care homes could be in sheltered housing.[22]
- Study #42, Services for the Elderly (1982), with John Bond.[23]
Carstairs was co-author, with T. Abelin and Z. J. Brzezinski, of the
References
- ^ Obituary notice, The Scotsman, 18 December 2020
- ^ a b Carstairs, Susan (3 January 2021). "Vera Carstairs obituary". The Guardian.
- ISBN 978-0-582-10104-3.
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/49602. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ Carstairs, G. M. (1958). Twice-born: a study of a community of high-caste Hindus. Bloomington,: Indiana University Press. p. 316.
- ^ a b c Medical Sciences International Who's who. Longman. 1990.
- ^ "Honorary Members Page". Society for Social Medicine and Population Health.
- ^ "Graduations: Edinburgh UNiversity". The Herald. 15 July 1995.
- PMID 7214872.
- PMID 7249578.
- PMID 3698561.
- ^ Proceedings of the International Collaborative Effort on Perinatal and Infant Mortality: Papers presented at the International Symposium on Perinatal and Infant Mortality, 1984, Bethesda, Maryland. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Center for Health Statistics. 1985. pp. 56–57.
- PMID 2510878.
- ^ Reid, James Martin. "Excess mortality in the Glasgow conurbation: exploring the existence of a Glasgow effect" (PDF). core.ac.uk. University of Glasgow. p. 85.
- ISBN 978-0-7879-8594-3.
- ^ "Deprivation data". census.ukdataservice.ac.uk.
- ^ Archived 31 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ House of Commons (1966). Sessional Papers. H. M. Stationery Office. p. 87.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4832-8550-4.
- ^ MacDonald, Jean Elizabeth. "The remedy of grievances in the National Health Service with particular reference to the Health Service Commissioner for Scotland" (PDF). theses.gla.ac.uk. p. 153.
- ^ Kane, Robert L.; Kane, Rosalie A. (1976). Long-term Care in Six Countries: Implications for the United States. U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health. p. 48.
- ^ Fabian Tract 435. Fabian Publications. 1975.
- ISBN 978-0-335-23080-8.
- ISBN 9789289011136.
- ^ V. Berridge, D. A. Christie and E. M. Tansey (editors). "Public Health in the 1980s and 1990s: Decline and Rise?" (PDF). qmro.qmul.ac.uk/. p. 30 note 95.
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