New Releases by Anne DIGBY

A socio-economic history of medical practice from the first voluntary hospital to national health insurance.

Elizabeth is furious when a new girl, an actress, becomes head girl over the obvious choice, her friend Emma. Elizabeth is convinced that all the seniors have been swayed by her acting skills, both on screen and at school--but how can she prove it? Kerry is cleverer than Elizabeth thinks, and somehow she just manages to make the Naughtiest Girl look like a troublemaker.

This book focuses on a formative period in the development of modern general practice. The foundations of present-day health care in Britain were created in the century before the National Health Service of 1948, when medicine was transformed in its structure, professional status, economic organization, and therapeutic power. In the first full-length study of general practice for these years, Anne Digby deploys an impressive range of hitherto unused archival material and oral testimony to probe the character of general practitioners careers and practices, and to assess their relationships with local communities, a wider society, and the state. An evolutionary approach is adopted to explain the origins and nature of the many changes in medical practice, and the lives of ordinary doctors. The study also explores the gendered nature of medical practice as reflected in the experience of a golden band of women GPs, and examines the hidden role of the doctors wife in the practice.

A classic school series with timeless appeal - in new adventures by Anne Digby. Elizabeth longs to star in the school play, so she knows she can''t afford to be naughty ...

Anne Digby takes Enid Blyton''s character on a new adventure. When her friend John asks her to keep his secret. Elizabeth finds herself in worse trouble than ever - and she is completely innocent. 7 yrs+

A classic school series with timeless appeal - in new adventures by Anne Digby. Elizabeth is desperate to play the piano at the school concert. But only one girl can be chosen and Arabella is practising hard ...

This volume brings together the first three stories in the Trebizon series, First Term at Trebizon, Second Term at Trebizon and Summer Term at Trebizon, describing the adventures of Rebecca and her friends at Trebizon school.

When Rupert, Rose and Richie are blamed for something they haven''t done, they realise they must solve the mystery and find the real culprits. Readers can test their own powers of deduction by spotting clues within the story and illustrations.