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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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Text & Context. Theatre & Performance. Social & Cultural events. Grades and Transfer Credit. Fees & Accommodation. Alumni in the Spotlight. Work by former students. Dr Calum Rodger Director. Dr Hannah Tweed Director. UK, and runs the website for the Glasgow Medical Humanities Research Centre. She reviews regularly for Disability Studies Quarterly, H-Disability, The Year’s Work in English Studies, and The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. Lauren Pope Administrative Manager. James Robert...

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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: 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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Dissecting the Page: Medical Paratexts Conference | Paratext Matters

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Dissecting the Page: Medical Paratexts Conference. July 29, 2015. Dissecting the Page: Medical Paratexts. Sir Alwyn Williams Building, Lilybank Gardens. University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ. 9am-6pm, Friday 11 September 2015. From Christina Lee and Freya Harrison’s discovery of the MRSA-combatting properties of an Anglo-Saxon recipe, to the increasing popularity of Ian Williams’. We invite papers on topics that include (but are not limited to):. The role of the medical preface. The conference venue, the Sir Al...

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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: September 2014

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Monday, 29 September 2014. Cows, contagion and sanitation and Victorian Dublin by Juliana Adelman. We are back after the summer break! In this month's post, Dr Juliana Adelman. Writes about her research on the history of animals and public health in nineteenth-century Dublin. Disease and animal-human relationships. Cattle Market, Dublin (view from North Circular Road towards Prussia St). Image courtesy of National Library of Ireland: Lawrence Photograph Collection. The erasure of animals. Cows, contagion...

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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).