Conferencia: "Oral history methodology in the study of occupational medicine and health in the 20th century"

Fecha: Jueves, 14 de mayo de 2015
Lugar: Aula Magna de la Facultad de Medicina
Horario: 12.30h
Descripción:
- Conferenciante: Prof. Arthur McIvor. Director, Scottish Oral History Centre, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
- Abstract: “It is a mark of the contribution of oral history to the history of medicine that studies located within living memory are open to criticism if they fail to include oral history.” (M. Winslow and G. Smith, ‘Ethical Challenges in the Oral History of Medicine’, in D. A. Ritchie (ed), The Oxford Handbook of Oral History. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2011, p. 372).
  In this way Michelle Winslow and Graham Smith recently argued (in 2011) for the importance of an oral history methodology in the history of health. This paper explores the contribution that oral history can make to medical and health history, drawing upon my particular research interests in the history of occupational health. Statistics can vastly under-represent the real scale and significance of the problem of occupational disease in modern societies, as, for example, Alfredo Menendez-Navarro’s research has shown for Spain. Oral history helps us to get beyond the statistical body counts of disease victims to explore why these epidemics happened, prevailing work-health cultures and what such ill-health, disability and death signified and meant to individuals, to families, and to communities.
  My argument here builds on oral history fieldwork undertaken with a colleague, Ronnie Johnston, which resulted in the publication of two monographs, Lethal Work: A History of the Asbestos Tragedy in Scotland (2000) and Miners’ Lung: A History of Dust Disease in British Coal Mining (2007). I have also drawn extensively upon oral interview material for my most recent book Working Lives (Palgrave, 2013) and also in my current and ongoing project, Bodies on the Line in Wartime, 1939-1945, which examines occupational medicine and health during the Second World War in Britain (we have undertaken 56 interviews so far with ‘reserved occupation’ workers). I will comment on some of the rich oral interview material from these projects in this presentation.
- The lecture will be organised in five parts:
  - 1. Context: the oral history of medicine and health
  - 2. Work cultures, risk and the body
  - 3. The impact of disease: Broken bodies and disability
  - 4. Agents as well as victims: Diseased workers’ movements
  - 5. Conclusion: What does oral history contribute?
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Conferencia: «Oral history methodology in the study of occupational medicine and health in the 20th century»

14 mayo 2015 | 10:30 - 11:30 h

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Conferencia: «Oral history methodology in the study of occupational medicine and health in the 20th century»

14 mayo 2015 | 10:30 - 11:30 h

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