Dr Ruth Hodgkinson

The following is an interim description which may change when detailed cataloguing takes place in future:

Ph.D. thesis; general research notes on 19th century issues such as public health; notes and transcripts relating to Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866); material on history of medicine in Canada

20th century

9 transfer boxes

These papers were donated to the library at Wellcome Collection by Dr Hodgkinson's daughter in 2004.

Ruth Hodgkinson was a medical historian. She was at one time associated with the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and published on a range of subjects, including social medicine, medical education, the medical provisions of he nineteenth-century Poor Law and the origins of the National Health Service. In addition, she took an interest in the history of medicine in North America.

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