CALL FOR PAPERS. 2008 Oral History Society Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS. 2008 Oral History Society Conference

2008 Oral History Society Annual Conference
University of Birmingham
4th - 5th July 2008

WHO CARED? ORAL HISTORY, CARING, HEALTH AND ILLNESS: Marking 60 years
of the National Health Service

Oral History Society Annual Conference, in association with the
Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Birmingham, to be
held at the University of Birmingham.

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 knowledges;
* hidden histories of organisational change and development
* the NHS and its global workforce
* power, humour, emotion, loss, resistance and changes in care
relationships;
* the making of 'expert patients'
* emerging counter-knowledges and complementary and alternative
therapies
* the health/social care interface

We are also keen to encourage papers using oral history within the
following topic areas:

1. Migration and ethnicity

2. History of disability

3. Mental health (including old age psychiatry

4. Institutions, hierarchy and boundaries, including planned
environment and therapeutic communities

5. International use of oral history in palliative care

6. Medical professionalization – professional boundaries/groups

7. Experience of institutional closure

8. Public history and the presentation of oral history

Abstracts (200 words) should be submitted by 18 January 2008
To: Belinda Waterman, Department of History, University of Essex,
Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ.
Email: belinda@essex.ac.uk



Joanna Bornat
Professor of Oral History
Faculty of Health and Social Care
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
UK
tel: 01908654270