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Conference report: Medical training, student experience and the transmission...
In the first blog post of 2015, Dr Anne Hanley reports on 'Medical training, student experience and the transmission of knowledge' - a conference which took place at the Centre for the History of...
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The historical development of Irish Hospitals and the importance of their...
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,...
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The Cork Street Fever Hospital Archive
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...
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Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland,...
Prisoner Health Project: Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator AwardA major new research project in the history medicine has just been launched: 'Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in...
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A Knight at the Theatre: the Adelaide Hospital and Denominational Divisions...
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, UCD, writes about Dublin's...
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A Question of Authority: the Management of Shell Shock at the Irish War...
In this month's blog post Peter Reid, MLitt research student at the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland (CHOMI), UCD, looks at the treatment of shell shock in Ireland during the Great War. He...
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Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland (CHOMI), Seminar SeriesSemester One, 2015-2016Thursday 17 September 2015Dr Georgina Laragy (Queen's University, Belfast)'Children, welfare and space in the...
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AIDS and History
In this month's blog post, David Kilgannon, a Wellcome Trust funded PhD candidate in the Department of History, NUI Galway, looks at the response of two voluntary organisations, Gay Health Action and...
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Adolescence in Modern Irish History
Purchase from Palgrave MacmillanSeptember of this year marked the timely arrival of a new and fascinating edited collection, Adolescence in Modern Irish History, published by Palgrave Macmillan - the...
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Medical Practitioners in Early Modern Irish Wills
The destruction of the Public Records Office of Ireland in the conflagration of 1922 took with it almost all records on the administration of English government in Ireland from the thirteenth century....
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Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland (CHOMI), Seminar SeriesSemester Two, 2015-2016Thursday 4 February 2016 Dr Alice Mauger (University College Dublin)'The cost of insanity: public, voluntary...
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'The Vast and Often Unpermitted Collection Being Organised in my Diocese':...
As the incidence of polio began to rise in Ireland, voluntary organisations such as the Central Remedial Clinic were created to rehabilitate survivors of the disease. In this month's blog post Stephen...
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Website Launch: Exploring the History of Prisoner Health
A new website, Exploring the History of Prisoner Health - or histprisonhealth.com - has been launched by the team (co-PIs Dr Catherine Cox (CHOMI, UCD) and Professor Hilary Marland (CHM, University of...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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