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- Title
'We'd Just get Together ... and Talk about Cancer': Commissioned Oral Histories and the Professional Historian.
- Authors
Ware, Cheryl; Bryder, Linda
- Abstract
Through an examination of an oral history of the New Zealand Society for Oncology, this article explores the strengths and limitations of commissioned histories. It highlights the importance of engaging a professional historian to manage some of the enhanced methodological and ethical challenges involved with undertaking such projects. It also explores the society's motivations to launch this history, the role of commissioned histories in the history of medicine, and how the interviews conducted for the project created a forum for narrators to reflect on the significance of events in the organisation's history. We contend that criticisms of commissioned histories risk overlooking the skills required to conduct such projects, and the value of these histories to the commissioning body as well as to academic and other professional historians, and the wider public.
- Subjects
CANCER; ORAL history; MEDICAL historians; ONCOLOGY; MOTIVATION (Psychology)
- Publication
Health & History: Journal of the Australian & New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine, 2019, Vol 21, Issue 2, p47
- ISSN
1442-1771
- Publication type
Article