Colloquium 2008 programme
HISTORY OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY
RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM
CENTRE FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
11 APRIL 2008
OUTLINE PROGRAMME
0930 Registration and Coffee
1000 Welcome, Professor Robert Arnott and Stuart Wildman
1015 Key note address: Jonathon Reinarz: Putting Medicine in its Place: the importance of historical geography to the history of health care
1130 Claire Chatterton: "Can you play football?" Recruitment and retention in mental health nursing. Insights from oral history.
1200 Sarah York: The management of suicide in the nineteenth-century asylum
1230 LUNCH
1315 Helena Silva: Rise and fall of the nursing staff at the Saint Anthony's General Hospital (Oporto, Portugal - 1890-1930)
1345 Fran Badger: Entrepreneurial nineteenth century midwives. The case of Elizabeth Maurice of Birmingham.
1415 TEA/COFFEE
1445 Duncan Mitchell: ‘Let wisdom guide': textbooks as a tool for understanding the history of mental deficiency nursing in the UK.
1515 Stephanie Kirby: Madness in the Method or Method in the Madness: a personal rumination on the pursuit of the History of Nursing
1545 Closing remarks, Stuart Wildman and Dr Christine Hallett
1600 Close
