Datum: 12.14.03.2008
Ort: Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgart
Deadline: 01.10.2007

The conference is organized by the Institute for the History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation in Stuttgart with the financial support of the Robert Bosch Foundation. As the history of professionalization of nursing is meanwhile rather well explored, we would like to focus on the history of everyday nursing. This includes nursing practice (transfer of knowledge, conflicts between nurses, labor conflicts), various milieus or environments (private homes, sanatoria of alternative medicine or for consumptives, prisons, military hospitals, colonies, etc.), relationship between nurses and patients, gender, race, religious and social aspects of nursing practice.

The objective of this conference is to bring together scholars of nursing history from English and German speaking countries. Therefore the language of the conference will be English. Oral presentations should not exceed 20 minutes so as to allow for a thorough discussion.

Please submit a one page abstract (of no more than 400 words) by e-mail by October 1st, 2007. State the title of the paper at the top of the abtract and at the end list name, institutional affiliation or city and contact information. Abstracts will be peer-reviewed. There will be about 20 speakers. Applicants will be informed by November 1st, 2008 whether their proposals have been accepted. Participants will get their travel expenses reimbursed (colleagues from overseas up to an amount of 600 Euro). Hotel reservation will be provided by the Institute.

Dr. Sylvelyn Hähner-Rombach
Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung
Straußweg 17
70184 Stuttgart
Email: sylvelyn.haehner[at]igm-bosch.de
http://www.igm-bosch.de