Ann Cartwright (born 1925) is a British statistician and socio-medical researcher. Her Institute for Social Studies in Medical Care was launched by Michael Young, initially under the auspices of his

Institute of Community Studies Early years The Institute for Community Studies is a community-led research and evidence centre based in Bethnal Green, East London. Originally founded in 1953 by Michael Young as the Institute ''of'' Community Studies, it is probably best kno ...

where Cartwright went to work in 1960. The Institute produced numerous books and reports for the Department of Health which explored issues with the use and perception of primary medical care in Britain. One report (''Medicine Takers, Prescribers & Hoarders'', 1972) was written with

Karen Dunnell Dame Karen Hope Dunnell, DCB, FAcSS (''née'' Williamson; born 16 June 1946) is an American-born British medical sociologist and civil servant. She was National Statistician and Chief Executive of the Office for National Statistics of the Unit ...

, now the UK's

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. Others included ''Patients & Their Doctors'' (1967), ''Parent & Family Planning Services'' (1970), ''Life Before Death'' (1973, with Hockey & Anderson and ''The Role of Residential and Nursing Homes in the Last Year of People's Lives'' (1988). Cartwright retired in 1993 and the Institute was subsequently disbanded.

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