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''Mothers and Daughters: A Three-Generational Study of Health Attitudes and Behaviour'' is a book by Prof.
Mildred Blaxter
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".
Early life
She was born Mildred Lil ...
and Elizabeth Patterson based on Blaxter's study "Mothers and Daughters: Accounts of Health in the Grandmother Generation, 1945-1978".
The study is concerned with grandmother-daughter relationships, especially in regard to medical advice, or more generally beliefs and attitudes to health and medical care from an intergenerational perspective. Between 1977 and 1978, 46 grandmothers were interviewed about their own health and the health of their family members, answering detailed questions on topics such as episodes of illness,
health services
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nutrition
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(ESDS website The original study included both interviews from grandmothers and daughters. However, this collection only provides the grandmother interviews.
Bibliography
Blaxter, Mildred and Patterson, Elizabeth (1982) ''Mothers and Daughters: A Three-Generational Study of Health Attitudes and Behaviour'', London: Heinemann Educational Books