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Robert Dingwall

@rwjdingwall.bsky.social

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Consulting sociologist, researcher, writer and entrepreneur. Medical sociology; sociology of law; STS; ethnomethodology; CA. Re-post does not imply endorsement.

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Robert Dingwall @rwjdingwall.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Society was always better 20 years ago - so says every generation at least back to the 1840s... See G. Pearson, 'Hooligan', Macmillan, 1983...

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Robert Dingwall @rwjdingwall.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Do you cover Lady May Baird? Pioneer of access to contraception and major figure in improving public health in Aberdeen from the late 1930s on. Doesn't even rate a Wikipedia entry!

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Robert Dingwall @rwjdingwall.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

McKeown works better for other respiratory and GI infections. Shouldn't simply be read across for period since 1950. A big critical literature. Good value are ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2... and ISBN 1 899040 66 8 But basic question and answer hold up quite well.

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Robert Dingwall @rwjdingwall.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

McKeown argues that medical science (inc vaccination) made only a small contribution to mortality decline 1850-1960 compared with environmental improvements. (He understated the role of public health) Diptheria is a hybrid case because antitoxin brings death rates down quite a lot from about 1900.

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