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Event: Mind-Reading 2017
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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...
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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’...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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