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There is further discussion in Bulmer, M. The Social Basis of Community Care , Allen and Unwin, London, 1987; Cecil, R. , Offer, J. and St Leger, F. , Informal Welfare: A Sociological Study of Care in Northern Ireland, Gower, Aldershot, 1987; Parker, G. , With Due Care and Attention, Family Policy Studies Centre , London 1985; and Robinson, T. , In Worlds Apart, Bedford Square Press, London , 1978.

Social Workers, Their Role and Tasks (Barclay Report), Bedford Square Press, London, 1982 ; Community Care: Agenda for Action (Griffiths Report), HMSO, London, 1988.

Neighbourhood Nursing: A Focus for Care (Cumberlege Report) , HMSO, London, 1986, p.76. A brief discussion of the Report is contained in Allsop, J. , 'Primary health care - the politics of change ,' Journal of Social Policy, Vol. 15, No 4, 1986, pp. 489-496.

Williams, R. , 'Concepts of health: an analysis of lay logic ', Sociology, Vol. 17, No.2, 1983, pp.185-205.

Herzlich, C. , Health and Illness, translated by H.D. Graham, Academic Press, London, 1973. See also Williams, R. , 'Logical analysis as a qualitative method 1: themes in old age and chronic illness', Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol.3, No. 2, 1981, pp. 140-164, and 'Logical analysis as a qualitative method 2: conflict of ideas and the topic of illness', Vol. 3, No.2, 1981. pp. 165-187.

Williams, 1983, p.202.

Calnan, M. , Health and Illness: The Lay Perspective, Tavistock , London, 1987.

Pill, R. and Stott, N. , 'Concepts of illness causation and responsibility: some preliminary data from a sample of working class mothers', Social Science and Medicine, Vol.16, 1982, pp.43-52.

Stott, N. and Pill, R. , A Study of Health Beliefs, Attitudes and Behaviour Among Working Class Mothers , Department of General Practice, Welsh National School of Medicine, Cardiff, 1983 .

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ibid.

ibid., p.50.

Stott and Pill, ibid., p.140.

See also Blaxter, M. and Paterson, L. , Mothers and Daughters: A Three Generation Study of Health Attitudes and Behaviour , Heineman, London , 1982.

Stott and Pill, ibid., p.146.

ibid., p.147.

ibid.

Kingsley, C. , Health and Education, Isbister, London, 1874, pp.7-8.

Stacey, M. , 'The sociology of health and illness: its present state, future prospects and potential for health research'. Sociology, Vol.12, 1978, pp.281-307, p.291.

Carrier, J. and Kendall, I. , 'Social policy and social change: explanations of the development of social policy', Journal of Social Policy , Vol.2, No.3, 1973, pp.209-224. Further relevant discussion is in Mack, J. and Lansley, S. , Poor Britain , Allen and Unwin, London, 1985, and Offer, J. 'On the need for a sociology of poverty: comments on the state of research on poverty in the United Kingdom', Social Science Information, Vol.24, No.2, 1985, pp.299-307.