Petchey R
Department of General Practice, Medical School, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham.
BMJ. 1995 Jul 1;311(6996):40-2. doi: 10.1136/bmj.311.6996.40.
Collings's grim description of postwar general practice in England and his sombre analysis of its prospects created an immediate sensation. In addition to its value as a historical document, the report is also regarded as a turning point in the postwar history of British general practice. The study is also interesting for another reason, which has not been acknowledged: Collings merits recognition as a pioneer of ethnographic research at a time when it was largely unknown elsewhere in British social research.
科林斯对英国战后全科医疗的严峻描述以及他对其前景的悲观分析立刻引起了轰动。除了作为一份历史文献的价值外，该报告也被视为英国全科医疗战后历史的一个转折点。这项研究还有另一个有趣的原因，而这一点尚未得到认可：在英国社会研究的其他地方，人种志研究在很大程度上还不为人知的时候，科林斯值得被视为该研究领域的先驱。
