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'Experiences in the reception of evacuee expectant mothers', reprinted from Public Health, Aug 1942

'The scope for home care in the National Health Service', reprinted from Symposium on Home Care and Nursing in The Practitioner, Vol 177, pp 5-9, Jul 1956

'The physician's part in hospital planning', reprinted from the Supplement to the BMJ, Vol 1, pp 115-118, Apr 1959

'British public health planning' (American Hospital Association lecture), press release by American Hospital Association, Sep 1961

'Trends in specialization and their effect on the practice of medicine', reprinted from the BMJ, Vol 2, pp 843-847, 30 Sep 1961

Inaugural address, Society of Medical Officers of Health First Annual Symposium, reprinted from Public Health, Vol 76 no 4, (1962)

'The public health department as a research unit', reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Society of Health, Vol 82 no 4, Jul/Aug 1962

'The effect of specialisation on maternity services', reprinted from The Lancet, pp 1061-1066, 18 May 1963

'Radiology in the National Health Service' (British Institute of Radiology Annual Congress address), reprinted from the British Journal of Radiology, Vol 36 no 248, Aug 1963

'Child health - the world situation', reprinted from Journal of the Royal Society of Health, Vol 83 no 4, Jul/Aug 1963

'Changing prospects in medicine', reprinted from the BMJ, Vol 2, pp 1357-1360, 30 Nov 1963

'Measurement and mechanisation in medicine', reprinted from The Lancet, pp 1191-1195, 5 Dec 1964

'Medicine and the community', reprinted from the BMJ, Vol 2, pp 665-669, 18 Sep 1965

'Measurement in medicine - origin and purpose', reprinted from Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol 58 no 9, pp 664-670, Sep 1965

'The postgraduate medical school: the future', reprinted from the Postgraduate Medical Journal, Vol 42, pp 744-747, 1966

'Medical care and the advance of science', reprinted from The Scientific Basis of Medicine Annual Reviews, 1967

'Financing the health services in Britain', reprinted from the Ghana Medical Journal, Vol 7 no 2, pp 87-96, Jun 1968

'The public health yesterday and tomorrow', reprinted from The Practitioner, Vol 201, pp 162-171, Jul 1968

'General practice, past and present', reprinted from The Journal of the Royal College of Practitioners, Vol 16 no 175, 1968

'The safe environment' (77th Health Congress inaugural address, Royal Society of Health), reprinted from the (Journal of the Royal Society of Health, Apr 1969)

'Safety of mother and child', reprinted from The Lancet, pp 312-313, 9 Aug 1969

'The future place of the personal physician' (Michael M Davis Lecture, University of Chicago), published by the Center for Health Administration Studies, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 1969

Tribute to Sir Ludwig Guttmann, reprinted from Paraplegia, p 145, (1969)

'Medical manpower and the needs of the service' (Harold S Diehl Lecture, American Public Health Association), reprinted from the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London, Vol 4 no 2, Jan 1970

'Smoking disease: a self-inflicted injury', reprinted from the American Journal of Public Health, Vol 60 no 2, Feb 1970

'Postgraduate education and the proposed specialist register for consultants and general practitioners', reprinted from the Journal of the Irish Medical Association, Vol 63 no 399, Sep 1970

'The case against smoking', reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Society of Health, Vol 90 no 5, Sep/Oct 1970

'The organisation of medical work in hospitals', reprinted from the Journal of the Irish Medical Association, Vol 63 no 402, Dec 1970

'Priorities in medicine', reprinted from The Journal of the Royal College of Practitioners, Vol 20 no 313, 1970

'Recent progress and future aims in obstetrics' (William Meredith Shaw Lecture), reprinted from the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Commonwealth, Vol 78 no 3, pp 193-202, Mar 1971

'Preventative medicine in the '70s' (Health Congress lecture, Royal Society of Health), reprinted from the (Journal of the Royal Society of Health), Apr 1971

'The British position' in proceedings of Anglo-American Conference on Medical Care, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, pp 3-7, Apr 1971

Response to receiving the Léon Bernard Foundation Medal and Prize, WHO Chronicle, Vol 26 no 8, pp 347-350, Aug 1972

'Interpretational relationships in the Health Service' (First Dr Elizabeth Casson Memorial Lecture, Association of Occupational Therapists), reprinted from Occupational Therapy, (unidentified issue), July 1973

'The responsibilities and role of the doctor concerned with the care of the mentally handicapped', reprinted from The British Journal of Psychiatry, Vol 123 no 577, Dec 1973

'Future developments in epidemiology', reprinted from The future-and present indicatives: problems and progress in medical care (published for the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust by OUP), 1973

'Government and medical education in the UK' in proceedings of Anglo-American Conference on Continuing Medical Education, (Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine), pp 14-22, 8 Apr 1974

'Constraints upon the application of medical advances' in 'Symposium No. 15 Constraints on the advance of medicine', reprinted from Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol 67, Dec 1974

'Health in the world today', reprinted from Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, Vol 117, pp 12-25, 1974-1975

'The nation's health', Update, Jan 1975

'The health care cost explosion-which way now?', reprinted from Acta Hospitalia, Vol 15 no 2, pp 71-83, Summer 1975

'A glance at our origins', Modern Geriatrics, Vol 5 no 12, Dec 1975

'Cancer as a community problem' (1975 Thom Bequest lecture, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh), reprinted from (unidentified publication), (1975)

'Decision-making system and structures in the British National Health Service', reprinted from Hospital Progress, pp 82-96, Mar 1976

'The greater medical profession' (Ira V. Hiscock Lecture, Yale University), reprinted from The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, Vol 49, pp 137-147, 1976

'Attainable goals in health' (Maurice Bloch Lecture, University of Glasgow), University of Glasgow Press, 1976

'The dynamics of health care: the needs of the elderly' in 'Second James Ross Jenkins Memorial Symposium: The dynamics of provision of health care', University of Manitoba Medical Journal, (Oct 1976)

'The Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths: a limited study of clinical results', reprinted from The Analysis of Professional Practice, (1976)

'The prevention of cancer' (Ulster Cancer Foundation Panel of Medical Lecturers lecture, Apr 1977), published by the Ulster Cancer Foundation, (1977)

'McKeown's The Role of Medicine: comments from a former Chief Medical Officer', reprinted from the Millbank Memorial Fund Quarterly: Health and Society, pp 373-378, Summer 1977

'The effect of specialisation on the practice of medicine', reprinted from The Lancet, pp 257-259, 4 Feb 1978

'Prevention versus cure: a modern fallacy', reprinted from World Medicine, 22 Feb 1978

'Hitting the target on UK health education', Pulse, pp 16-17, 8 Apr 1978

Review of Roemer, M I, Health Care Systems in World Perspective (1976), reprinted from Inquiry, Vol 15, Sep 1978

'The road to better health', a review of Williamson, J and Danher, K, Self-care in health (1978), reprinted from Health Education, (1978)

'The scope and means of prevention' (address given to Manchester Medical Society, Section of Community Medicine), reprinted from (unidentified publication), 1978

'It is the men that make the city' (Gale Memorial Lecture, RCGP), reprinted from Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, Vol 29, April 1979

'Rationing in health care', a review of Mechanic, D, Future Issues in Health Care (1979), reprinted from The Lancet, pp 519-520, 8 Sep 1979

'Don't blame the doctors-change the law', reprinted from World Medicine, 4 Apr 1981

'Living with one eye', reprinted from the BMJ, Vol 282, 20 Jun 1981

'From a health centre in Oxfordshire', a review of Pritchard, P, Manual of Primary Health Care (2nd ed., 1981), reprinted from World Medicine, pp 94-95, 12 Dec 1981

'The NHS in an international setting', Health Bulletin (Edinburgh), Vol 40 no 2, 1982

'Striking the balance: therapy, prevention, and social support', reprinted from World health forum, Vol 3 no 3, pp 258-275, 1982

'Health versus greed', reprinted from the New York State Journal of Medicine, pp 1248-1249, Dec 1983

Review of Aaron, H J and Schwartz, W R, The Painful Prescription: Rationing Hospital Care (1984), reprinted from The Lancet, 26 May 1984

'Change and continuity' (William Pickles Lecture, RCGP), reprinted from Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, Vol 35, July 1985

'Forty years of the NHS: origins and early development' in 'Green College Lectures 1988: British medicine: yesterday, today and tomorrow', reprinted from the BMJ, Vol 297, pp 37-43, 2 Jul 1988

Letter on 'Project 2000', reprinted from Public Health, Vol 102, pp 501-502, 1988

'Is longevity desirable?', reprinted from the BMJ, Vol 302, pp 1095-1096, 4 May 1991

'The Health Department and research', reprinted from the Journal of Public Health Medicine, Vol 14 no 3, pp 339-343, (1991)

'Rationing health care', reprinted from (Schizo)phrenia, (1991)

Review of Pereira Gray, D J, Forty years on: the story of the first forty years of the Royal College of General Practitioners (1992), reprinted from Family Practice-An International Journal, (unidentified issue), pp 349-350, (1992)

'The origin and inception of the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths', reprinted from the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Vol 101, pp 946-947, Nov 1994

'Health Trends: 25 years on', in Health Trends, Vol 26 no 1, p 1, 1994

'Report of the independent committee of inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the publication of two articles in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in August 1994', prepared for the council of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, May 1995

'The most significant contribution to the literature of health promotion this decade' (comment on Kendell, R E, 'Drinking sensibly', British Journal of Addiction, Vol 82, pp 1279-1288, 1987), reprinted from British Journal of Addiction, Vol 82, pp 1289-1300, 1987

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'The most significant contribution to the literature of health promotion this decade' (comment on Kendell, R E, 'Drinking sensibly', British Journal of Addiction, Vol 82, pp 1279-1288, 1987), reprinted from British Journal of Addiction, Vol 82, pp 1289-1300, 1987

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