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Centre for Medical History University of Exeter ________________________________________________ Call for Papers ‘Working with Dust: Health, Dust and Diseases in the History of Occupational Health’ An international comparative conference on industrial health and the politics of disease regulation since 1700 10th, 11th and 12th April 2006 Hosted by the Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter The Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter is hosting an international conference to be held at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, Exeter, on 10th, 11th and 12th April 2006. The conference will include the following themes: Testaments and oral history of dusty workplaces. Coal mining: colliery diseases and the struggle for compensation. Asbestos. Silicosis to pneumoconiosis. Tuberculosis and industrial disease Gender and industrial disease. State responses to respiratory illness at work. International models of dust-induced industrial illness. International Labour Office and the regulation of dusty work. Changing frontiers in the burden of dust-induced diseases: developing countries. The frontier between work and the environment in the incidence of disease. Additional themes may be included at the request of those proposing papers. If you would be interested in contributing to the conference, please can you forward an abstract of 250 words to Claire Keyte, Administrator, The Centre for Medical History, School of Historical, Political and Sociological Studies, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4RJ, or by email to [log in to unmask] by 29th July 2005.