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 Medical School
4-5 July 2008
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.