On the periphery? Occupational health and industrial medicine in the West of Scotland 1945-1980s. (360G-Wellcome-081529_B_06_Z)

On the periphery? Occupational health and industrial medicine in the West of Scotland 1945-1980s Resonant with the Wellcome Trust's funding priority of Health, Medicine and the Environment, this pilot project will examine occupational health provision in the West of Scotland c.1945-1980s, focusing on the shipbuilding industry, forming the basis of a future more comprehensive research programme on occupational health in a range of Scottish industries. In conceptual terms, the study will examine the dynamics of regional distinctiveness, testing the relevance of a core/periphery model in relation to occupational health policy and provision in late twentieth century Scotland. The project will involve a combination of archival research and oral history methodology - previously deployed by the applicants in their research on asbestos disease and coal dust disease - with the Research Assistant conducting a reconnaissance of relevant primary sources as well as assisting in the selection and interviewing of oral history respondents. The oral history element of the project will culminate in a witness seminar comprising occupational health professionals involved with workplace health in Scotland during this period.