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History of Medicine in Ireland Blog: May 2015

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Wednesday, 20 May 2015. Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850–2000. Prisoner Health Project: Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award. A major new research project in the history medicine has just been launched: ' Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850–2000'. This collaborative, five-year study, funded by a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award. Is being led by co-Principal Investigators, Professor Hilary Marland. And the...

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History of Medicine in Ireland Blog: March 2014

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Thursday, 13 March 2014. The Crusade to ‘Conquer Cancer’ in Ireland, 1950s-70s - Smoking and Lung Cancer: The Rise of the Visual by Jane Hand. In this month's blog post, Jane Hand. A PhD student at the Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick, writes about public health initiatives in the campaign against lung cancer in Ireland, c.1958-78. This was the subject of her MA dissertation undertaken at CHOMI, UCD (2011). Fig 1 Anti-Smoking Leaflet aimed at children,. 8217; which represented th...

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History of Medicine in Ireland Blog: The Cork Street Fever Hospital Archive by Fergus Brady

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Tuesday, 5 May 2015. The Cork Street Fever Hospital Archive by Fergus Brady. In 2013, the Cork Street Fever Hospital archive. Was donated to the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. RCPI) Following a recent funding award, the archivists at the RCPI began the process of cataloguing and preserving these extensive and important medical records. The project is now complete and the final collection list is available to browse through the online RCPI catalogue. In this month's post, Fergus Brady. Less than ...

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History of Medicine in Ireland Blog: Events

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Upcoming medical humanities events in Ireland. Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland (CHOMI), Seminar Series, 2015-2016. Thursday 4 February 2016. The cost of insanity: public, voluntary and private asylum care in nineteenth-century Ireland'. Thursday 3 March 2016. The tenuous relationship between gender, health and work, c. 1860-1960'. Thursday 7 April 2016. Dr Luz Mar González-Arias. Landscapes of pain: the representation of illness in Dorothy Molloy's cancer poetry'. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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History of Medicine in Ireland Blog: A Knight at the Theatre: the Adelaide Hospital and Denominational Divisions in Dublin's Voluntary Hospitals by Robbie Roulston

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Tuesday, 9 June 2015. A Knight at the Theatre: the Adelaide Hospital and Denominational Divisions in Dublin's Voluntary Hospitals by Robbie Roulston. One of the characteristic features of Dublin's voluntary hospitals has been their long-standing denominational divisions. In this month's blog post Dr Robbie Roulston. Adelaide nurses, on the main. Staircase of the hospital,1950s. Was founded in 1839. A 'bitter anti-Catholic reputation'. And his wife; to members of the Government; and to a number of Army Of...

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History of Medicine in Ireland Blog: June 2014

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Wednesday, 25 June 2014. A Malady of Migration: theatre production in Coventry and Dublin. At a time when the issues of migration and mental health are seldom out of the news, the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland. CHOMI) has worked with the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick. CHM) and Talking Birds. Theatre company to develop a new theatre production which explores why the mid-nineteenth century saw a prevalence of mental disorders among Irish migrants. Shop Fron...

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History of Medicine in Ireland Blog: April 2014

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Friday, 11 April 2014. Treating Measles in late Seventeenth-Century London and Dublin by Elizabethanne Boran. This month, Elizabethanne Boran, librarian at the Edward Worth Library, Dublin, writes on treating measles in late seventeenth-century London and Dublin, with particular focus on the works of John Pechey (1654-1718), many of which were collected by the Irish physician Edward Worth (1678-1733). A keen collector of medical works. Title page of John Pechey's Collections of Acute Diseases (1691).

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History of Medicine in Ireland Blog: Conference report: Medical training, student experience and the transmission of knowledge by Anne Hanley

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Thursday, 5 February 2015. Conference report: Medical training, student experience and the transmission of knowledge by Anne Hanley. In the first blog post of 2015, Dr Anne Hanley. Reports on 'Medical training, student experience and the transmission of knowledge'. And may be accessed here. I recently attended the conference, 'Medical training, student experience and the transmission of knowledge, c.1800-2014' (or. 8217;, will have to take a back seat for now.). An important focus of MTSE was the central...

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History of Medicine in Ireland Blog: The historical development of Irish Hospitals and the importance of their records by Brian Donnelly

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Tuesday, 24 March 2015. The historical development of Irish Hospitals and the importance of their records by Brian Donnelly. In this month's post, Brian Donnelly, senior archivist at the National Archives of Ireland. Outlines the development of Irish hospitals from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Rotunda Hospital, Dublin. RCPI Archival collections: VM/1/4/19). The establishment of the voluntary hospitals. The House of Industry hospitals, district lunatic asylums and medical dispensaries. The Dub...

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History of Medicine in Ireland Blog: Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850–2000

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Wednesday, 20 May 2015. Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850–2000. Prisoner Health Project: Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award. A major new research project in the history medicine has just been launched: ' Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850–2000'. This collaborative, five-year study, funded by a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award. Is being led by co-Principal Investigators, Professor Hilary Marland. And the...