Therapy and empowerment

CALL FOR PAPERS

Therapy and Empowerment - Coercion and Punishment

*Historical Perspectives on Work and Occupational Therapy

International Research Symposium

This conference aims to provide a platform for exchange to scholars who are working on varied aspects of labour and occupation in relation to the history of health and medicine broadly conceived. The idea is to encourage critical engagement with the various medical, social and political factors implicated in how work and occupational therapy developed within specific national and clinical contexts and at different periods. Comparative approaches and contributions focusing on transnational exchanges are particularly welcome, as are those concerned with pre-modern and non-European developments. Rigorously contextualised case studies of specific institutions and approaches are also sought.

Compensation for travel expenditure and local hospitality during the conference is aimed at but cannot be guaranteed.

The closing date for abstracts (300 words) is 10 January 2013. Please indicate the primary source base of your contribution in your abstract.

*Address for submission of abstracts and for inquiries:*

Ms Emma Hallet emma.hallett.10@ucl.ac.uk

or Professor Waltraud Ernst wernst@brookes.ac.uk

Conference website:
http://www.history.brookes.ac.uk/conferences/2013/therapy-empowerment/