Conclusion
21Titmuss and North America: early encounters and first visit
Introduction
Making contacts and making comparisons
Invitations
Yale and the National Health Service
Columbia and social work
Conclusion
22Helping American scholars on British topics
Introduction
Social welfare: Heclo and Gilbert
Health: Eckstein, Lindsey, and Mencher
Researching Tawney: Terrill
A transatlantic research project
Conclusion
23Titmuss and President Johnson’s ‘War on Poverty’
Introduction
Social welfare in 1960s America
Back in the USA
Addressing the issues
Talking to The Nation
Chicago, 1966
Conclusion
24‘One of the greatest human beings of our time’: Titmuss’s influence on North American thinking on social welfare
Introduction
‘I hope you know the extent of your influence here’
Commitment to Welfare and North America
Americans remember
Conclusion
Part 5Troubles?
25The Labour government, social policy, and the Supplementary Benefits Commission
Introduction
The poverty lobby
Appointment to the Supplementary Benefits Commission
‘New Guardians of the Poor’
Defending the SBC: staff
Defending the SBC: critics
Titmuss and Townsend
Defending the SBC: universal or selective?
Conclusion
26A public figure in troubled times: Vietnam, race relations, and the Common Market
Introduction
Vietnam
Race relations
The Common Market
Conclusion
27Healthcare, the market, and the Institute of Economic Affairs: the making of The Gift Relationship
Introduction
Early skirmishes
More grief
Building his case
The IEA again
The Gift Relationship
Reading The Gift Relationship
Conclusion
28‘It really is hell’: disruption at the LSE
Introduction
Titmuss and students
A new director
More problems and bad publicity
Titmuss’s take on ‘The Troubles’
Interpreting ‘The Troubles’
Titmuss, Townsend, and ‘The Troubles’
Conclusion
29‘A new prophet had appeared in our midst’: final illness, death, and memorial service
Introduction
Cancer
Soldiering on
Remembering Richard Titmuss
Memorial service
Conclusion
Part 6Conclusion
30A commitment to welfare: the life and work of Richard Titmuss
Introduction
Life and career
A ‘philosophy of welfare’?
Titmuss in the twenty-first century
‘A way of looking at the world’
Publications by Richard Titmuss cited in this volume
Frequently cited secondary sources
Archival sources
Index
| AMA | American Medical Association |
| BLPES | British Library of Political and Economic Science |
| BMJ | British Medical Journal |
| BPP | British Parliamentary Papers |
| BSA | British Sociological Association |
| CBE | Commander of the British Empire |
| CPAG | Child Poverty Action Group |
| DHSS | Department of Health and Social Security |
| GP | General Practitioner |
| IEA | Institute of Economic Affairs |
| ISSA | International Social Security Association |
| LCC | London County Council |
| LSE | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| LSHTM | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
| MOH | Medical Officer of Health |
| MP | Member of Parliament |
| MRC | Medical Research Council |
| NAB | National Assistance Board |
| NAMH |
National Association for Mental Health
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