CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS.
Insurance, sickness and old age: past experiences and future prospects?
This conference will provide an opportunity to present current research on
the history of sickness and morbidity. We are interested in receiving
proposals for papers which might address the following issues: the history
of sickness insurance; the relationship between age and morbidity; the
definition of ‘old age’; and the relevance of debates about sickness and
working capacity to current debates about pension provision and future
trends in health and longevity.
We expect to hold the conference in Southampton on 15-16 April.
The conference will be funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council
as part of an ongoing project entitled ‘The health and morbidity of friendly
society members in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries’
(RES-062-23-0324). We hope to be able to pay the travel and accommodation
expenses of all invited speakers.
If you would like to propose a paper for this meeting, please send a
completed proposal (300 words) to Bernard Harris ([log in to unmask]). The
deadline for receipt of proposals is 15 September 2008.
Martin Gorsky (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Aravinda
Guntupalli, Bernard Harris and Andrew Hinde (University of Southampton).
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