CALL FOR PAPERS
Society for the Social History of Medicine Spring conference
From Urban Penalty to Global Crisis: Current Issues in the History
of Tuberculosis
23-24 March 2002, Sheffield, England
Despite the growth of work on tuberculosis in recent years, there
has been no major symposium devoted to the history of the
disease in Britain. In this meeting we aim to bring together the key
figures who have reshaped the history of tuberculosis in the past
decade or so, to reflect on recent work, and to explore the new
directions now being taken. The conference date has been chosen
to co-incide with the WHO's World TB Day in 2002, because we
hope to bring together historians, with doctors, epidemiologists and
policymakers involved in current control policies.
We welcome intentions to give papers on all aspects of the history
of tuberculosis. The organisers are particularly keen to have
speakers from various disciplines and nationalities attending and
we warmly invite colleagues from outside of Britain to participate.
The Society for the Social History of Medicine offers a limited
number of student bursaries to allow post-graduate students to
attend the conference. If you are interested, please contact the
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The following have already indicated their intention to attend: David
Barnes, Linda Bryder, Susan D. Jones, Barron Lerner, Hans
Rieder, Keir Waddington, John Welshman. Please send details of
proposed papers (300 words maximum) to either
Flurin Condrau or Michael Worboys until 1 July 2001.
Conference website http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/cri/chr/tb
For more information on the Society for the Social History of
Medicine, visit http://www.sshm.org/
Flurin Condrau
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Dept of History, Univeristy of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN
or
Michael Worboys
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CRI, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, S10 2BP
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