Papers are encouraged from all disciplines, including ethics and the medical humanities. Proposals are sought for physical, mental and emotional medicine and healing. It is anticipated that topics will encompass, but will not be restricted, to the following:

• Grievances between medical practitioners
• Criticism of medical innovation and pioneers, new techniques, syndromes or disease classifications
• Conflict between humoral/herbal/complementary and modernising/mainstream/Western medicine
• Objections to legislation and policy; its absence, drafting, application and workability
• Complaints about public health conception and measure
• Tensions within the mixed economy of health care
• Whistleblowers and trade union intervention
• Protests from, or on behalf of, patients, service users, their families and/or advocates
• Objections to self-help and self-medication
• The impact of professionalisation/professional bodies and the legal profession on medical and ethical standards
• Complaint resolution in closed institutional/organisational settings
• Complaints as agents of change
• Conciliation practices in the public sphere or individual communities and institutions
• Apologies, official and informal, and their reception

Submissions

Proposals are invited for individual papers of 20 minutes;
panel submissions of 3 papers will also be considered favourably.
Limited travel assistance may be available for unsupported post-graduate speakers and those on a low income.
Abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words in length and should be submitted to Dr Rebecca Wynter (r.i.wynter@bham.ac.uk)

no later than 23 April 2012.