Exploring a range of topics from birth control, midwifery and AIDS to geriatric medicine and learning disability, Oral History, Health and Welfare discusses the significance of oral history to the history of the development of health and welfare provisions. By focussing on individual experiences, the human dimension of the history of medicine is explored. Oral history reveals the personal stories of innovation, policy shifts, training and treatment over a sixty year period of development, characterized by both continuity and change.