*WHO CARED?
ORAL HISTORY, CARING, HEALTH AND ILLNESS*
*/Marking 60 years of the National Health Service/*
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*Oral History Society Annual Conference
**In association with the Centre for the History of Medicine, *
*University of Birmingham
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*To be held at the University of Birmingham Medical School*
*4-5 July 2008***
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We are keen to encourage presentations from those using oral history in
understanding health care relationships in the histories of medicine;
illness; well-being; disability; and planned environments.
We particularly welcome papers that further our understanding of the
experience of formal and informal caring in community and institutional
settings and amongst professionals, the cared for, carers and kin.
Our themes will include:
* Witnessing the impact of, and challenges to, medical knowledge;
* Power, humour, emotion, loss, resistance and changes in care
relationships;
* The making of ‘expert patients’;
* Emerging counter-knowledge and complementary and alternative
therapies;
* The health/social care interface;
* The relationship between oral history and the histories of
medicine, health and illness.
Abstracts (200 words) should be submitted by *18 January 2008 *to
Belinda Waterman, Department of History, University of Essex, Wivenhoe
Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ.
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Dr. Craig Fees, RMSA
Archivist
Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre
Hon. Director, Institute for the History and Work of Therapeutic Environments (a research and study centre of the University of Birmingham)
Church Lane
Toddington near Cheltenham
Glos. GL54 5DQ
United Kingdom
01242 620125
http://www.pettarchiv.org.uk
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