Doctors, deaths, diagnoses and data: a comparative study of the medical certification of cause of death in nineteenth-century Scotland. (360G-Wellcome-082200_Z_07_Z)

£60,077

The project will augment an already created dataset of some 38,000 death certificates from 4 communities in Scotland, 1861-1901, by adding the names of the doctors certifying the cause of death on each certificate. Three of the communities are rural, the remote Isle of Skye and the parishes of Rothiemay and Torthorwald, the fourth is the industrial town of Kilmarnock. Biographies of the certifying doctors will be constructed, as will individual and collective socio-economic profiles of their pat ients. This information will be used to assess the extent to which a doctor's age or date of qualification, the place and form of his medical training, his role within the medical provision particular to his community, or the characteristics of his patients influenced the causes of death which he recorded. A proportion of rural deaths went uncertified, and lay-reported causes of will be compared with medically certified. The findings will provide a deeper understanding of nineteenth century mortality patterns, as captured by published statistics generated by the civil registration system. They should also reveal the varying access to medical care available to patients depending on their social class, economic circumstances, or whether the community they lived in was urban, rural or remote .

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 60077
Applicant Surname Smith
Approval Committee Medical History and Humanities Funding Committee
Award Date 2007-03-08T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2006/07
Grant Programme: Title Project funding: Inactive scheme
Internal ID 082200/Z/07/Z
Lead Applicant Prof Richard Smith
Partnership Value 60077
Planned Dates: End Date 2008-06-30T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2007-06-01T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United Kingdom
Region East of England