Clik here to view.
Parochial Officers of Health in pre-Famine Dublin by Ciarán McCabe
In this month's blog Dr Ciaran McCabe, an Irish Research Council funded postdoctoral fellow (NUI Galway), considers the oft-neglected figure of the parochial health officer and his role in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
MA in the History of Welfare and Medicine in Society
MA History of Welfare & Medicine in SocietyProgramme Director: Dr Catherine Coxcatherine.cox@ucd.ieAbout the MAMedicine, illness and welfare occupy a central place in all our lives. The MA is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wellcome Trust Master's Award Scheme
Wellcome Trust Master's Award SchemeThe UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland (CHOMI) seeks a candidate for the 2016 Wellcome Trust's Master's Award scheme, offering fees and living...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Cost of Insanity by Alice Mauger
The Cost of Insanity: Public, Voluntary and Private Asylum Care in Nineteenth-Century IrelandHow did Irish medical practitioners and lay people interpret and define mental illness? What behaviours were...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Local Health Authority Day Nurseries by Angela Davis
Local health authority day nurseries in post-1945 England In this month's blog Dr Angela Davis (University of Warwick) considers the fate of local health authority day nurseries in England from 1945 to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sharing of Medical Ideas and Information among Early Modern Practitioners by...
In this month's blog, Dr Benjamin Hazard (School of History, UCD), writes about a recent scholarly meeting which he co-convened at the Edward Worth Library (1733) in association with UCD Centre for the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Public Engagement Officer Posts
Two new Public Engagement Officer positions have been announced on the Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award Project, 'Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Event: Mind-Reading 2017
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000;...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Forgotten Episode of International Health by Dora Vargha
In this month's blog post, Dr Dora Vargha, University of Exeter, uncovers the neglected role of the Socialist Bloc and Eastern Europe in the history international public health. Dora argues that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Alcohol, Medicine and Irish Society, c.1890-1970 by Alice Mauger
Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities FellowshipA Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellowship has been awarded to Dr. Alice Mauger. Her three-year project on ‘Alcohol, Medicine and Irish Society, c.1890-1970’...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Disorder Contained: Theatre Performances, Coventry, Dublin, Belfast
A Theatrical Examination of Madness, Prison and Solitary ConfinementDisorder Contained: A theatrical examination of madness, prison and solitary confinement is a major public engagement activity for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An Tobar: a Two-day Workshop on Sacred Springs and Holy Wells
Waterford Museum of Treasures, 26-27th June 2017For further details please see: Holy Wells and Sacred SpringsThis two-day workshop brings together scholars from across the world and from a variety of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dr Sinead McCann: Receives Two Arts Council Awards
We're delighted to announce that Dr Sinead McCann of the UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland (CHOMI) has received two prestigious funding awards from the Arts Council of Ireland for her...
View ArticleClik here to view.
When Does The Air Matter? by Janet Greenlees
Air Quality and the Working EnvironmentIn this month's blog post Dr Janet Greenlees, Senior Lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University, looks at the history of industrial air quality and considers how...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lecturer/Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine
Lecturer/Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine (Modern)University College Dublin - UCD College of Arts & HumanitiesLocation:DublinSalary:€52,325 to €82,267 £46,379.78 to £72,919.74...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Abortion and Symphysiotomy in Ireland
In this month's blog post Dr Lynsey Black, Lecturer in Criminology, Department of Law, Maynooth University, considers the legal and historical context of abortion and symphysiotomy in Ireland.Law and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Irish Medical Responses to Problem Drinking from Institutionalisation to...
In the first of this two-part series, Dr Alice Mauger, Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, UCD, looks at the changing approaches of medical...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Who’s to Blame?: Inquests into Convict Deaths in Mountjoy, c.1868-1900
In this blog post, Annika Liger, a graduate of UCD's MA in History of Welfare & Medicine in Society, reveals anxieties around the medical care of prisoners in the late nineteenth century by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Prescription for Change: Training a Doctor in Nineteenth and...
In this blog post, Natalie Baldwin, a graduate of UCD's MA in History of Welfare & Medicine in Society, explores the realities of training as a medical professional, past and present.Today, when we...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Irish Medical Responses to Problem Drinking from Institutionalisation to...
In the second instalment of this two-part special,Dr Alice Mauger, Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland explores the changing approaches...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Now Enrolling for 2020/2021: MA in the History of Welfare and Medicine in...
In this blog post, we introduce UCD’s MA in the History of Welfare and Medicine in Society and look back at the work and achievements of some former students.MA in the History of Welfare and Medicine...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Historian’s Kaleidoscope – Making Sense of Medical History in Times of a...
In this blog post, Dr Claas Kirchhelle, Lecturer of the History of Medicine at University College Dublin (Wellcome Trust University Award) and Fellow of the Oxford Martin School, urges medical...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Through the Archives: Community Doctors of the Past
In this blog post, Simone Doyle, a student on UCD's MA in History of Welfare & Medicine in Society, explores the career of Dr Neil John Blayney (1874-1919) using archival material donated to the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Eminent and Amiable Doctor Mills
In this blog post, Fiona Slevin, a PhD candidate at UCD's School of History, explores the career of Dr Thomas Mills ([1773]-1830) using archival material donated to the Royal College of Physicians of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Through a Glass Darkly: The Archive and the Imperfect Portrait of a Man
In this blog post, Hannah Kempel, a student on UCD's MA in History of Welfare & Medicine in Society, reflects on her personal responses to archival material relating to Dr Neil John Blayney...
View Article