Geoff, 

don't know if you will have seen this cfp, but thought it might interest
you. I haven't forgotten I promised to lend you "Men in Danger" VHS, simply
can't find at the moment.

Tim


Dear Colleagues 

First announcement of a call for papers

Work, health and illness: the comparative history of industrial diseases,
accidents and 
occupational medicine

Conference at the University of Exeter, 8-10 September 2000.

This conference is designed to review recent and current research in the
history of working life and health at the workplace, covering all periods
and countries.  The conference is jointly supported by the Society for the
Social History of Medicine, the Society for the Study of Labour History,
and the UK Social History Society.  Offers of papers which attempt a
comparative and long-term perspective are particularly welcomed.  Amongst
the possible themes which the organisers have identified are: work and
illness in the ancient world; child labour and illness; occupational
illness and hazards of employment; regional and national comparisons of
occupational health; gender, work and illness; hazards, accidents and legal
compensation in working life; rationalisation, productivity and fatigue in
free market and planned economies; medical science and the idea of
occupational illness from lead poisoning to ME; mental hygiene, personality
testing and the right job; allergies, sick buildings and the working
environment.  Offers of papers should be sent in the first instance to
Joseph Melling, Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter, Exeter
EX4 4RJ; fax: 01392 263297; email: [log in to unmask] or
[log in to unmask]  Please submit titles and/or summaries by 30 April
1999.  Initial decisions 
will be made by early June 1999.
				
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Joseph Melling
Centre for Medical History
University of Exeter
Exeter EX4 4RJ

Phone: 01392 263297 or 263289 (ansaphone) or 263304 (messages)
Fax:   01392 263297 or 263305

Email: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]


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Work, health and illness: the comparative history of industrial diseases,
accidents and 
occupational medicine

Conference at the University of Exeter, 8-10 September 2000.

This conference is designed to review recent and current research in the
history of working life 
and health at the workplace, covering all periods and countries.  The
conference is jointly 
supported by the Society for the Social History of Medicine, the Society
for the Study of Labour 
History, and the UK Social History Society.  Offers of papers which attempt
a comparative and 
long-term perspective are particularly welcomed.  Amongst the possible
themes which the 
organisers have identified are: work and illness in the ancient world;
child labour and illness; 
occupational illness and hazards of employment; regional and national
comparisons of 
occupational health; gender, work and illness; hazards, accidents and legal
compensation in 
working life; rationalisation, productivity and fatigue in free market and
planned economies; 
medical science and the idea of occupational illness from lead poisoning to
ME; mental hygiene, 
personality testing and the right job; allergies, sick buildings and the
working environment.  
Offers of papers should be sent in the first instance to Joseph Melling,
Centre for Medical 
History, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4RJ; fax: 01392 263297; email:
[log in to unmask] 
or [log in to unmask]  Please submit titles and/or summaries by 30 April
1999.  Initial decisions 
will be made by early June 1999.



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T M Boon, 
Deputy Project Director, Making the Modern World Gallery
Curator of Public Health
Science Museum, London SW7 2DD, UK
tel: +44 (0)171 938 8069; fax: +44 (0)171 938 8050; [log in to unmask]
http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/mmw/index.html
http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/collections/themes/public_health.html

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