| 词条 | Mildred Blaxter |
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| name = Mildred Blaxter | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = Mildred Lillington Blaxter Hall | birth_date = 27 March 1925 | birth_place = Jesmond, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England | death_date = 29 August 2010 | death_place = Weston-super-Mare, England | nationality = British | residence = | education = | alma mater = St Anne's College, Oxford | occupation = sociologist and writer | title = | term = | known for = | spouse = Kenneth Blaxter | children = 3 | relations = | website = }}Mildred Lillington Blaxter (née Hall, 27 March 1925 – 29 August 2010) was a British sociologist and writer. According to her obituary in The Guardian, she "shed new light on the causes of deprivation".[1] Early lifeShe was born Mildred Lillington Hall on 27 March 1925 in Jesmond, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the elder child and only daughter of Robert Charlton Hall, a bank manager, and his wife, Mildred Violet Hall, née Gleed (1897–1963), an actress.[2] She was educated at St Anne's College, Oxford, and earned a bachelor's degree in English in 1949, and was the first woman to be assistant editor of the student newspaper, Isis.[2] CareerBlaxter was in her 40s, and her children were at school, when she read Peter Townsend's study of old people's homes The Last Refuge, and decided she wanted to be a sociologist. In 1967, she enrolled at the newly established department of sociology at the University of Aberdeen, alongside Raymond Illsley, Gordon Horobin, Phil Strong, and Alan Davies, and earned a master's degree in 1972, becoming a medical sociologist.[2] In 1972, she was appointed to the Aberdeen-based Medical Sociology Unit, as scientific officer.[2] In 1976, Blaxter published her first book, The Meaning of Disability. Her 1982 book, Mothers and Daughters is considered "a classic".[2] In 1982, when her husband retired, she joined the University of East Anglia, rising to professor of medical sociology in 2000, and was senior sociologist at the University of Cambridge.[1] In 1990, she published Health and Lifestyles.[1] Her last book came out in 2004, Health: Key Concepts.[1] Selected publications
Personal lifeOn 12 October 1957, she married Kenneth Blaxter (1919–1991), an animal nutritionist, and they had three children.[2] Later lifeShe died of lung cancer on 29 August 2010 at Weston Hospicecare, Uphill, Weston-super-Mare.[2][1] References1. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2010/sep/21/mildred-blaxter-obituary-sociologist|title=Mildred Blaxter obituary|first=Jennie|last=Popay|date=21 September 2010|publisher=The Guardian |accessdate=25 November 2017|via=www.theguardian.com}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Blaxter, Mildred Lillington}}2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite web|last1=Poppay |first1=Jennie |title=Blaxter [née Hall], Mildred Lillington (1925–2010) |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/102533 |website=ONDB |publisher=OUP |accessdate=25 November 2017}} 8 : 1925 births|2010 deaths|British sociologists|Academics of the University of East Anglia|Alumni of St Anne's College, Oxford|Academics of the University of Cambridge|Deaths from lung cancer|People from Newcastle upon Tyne |
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