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Speaker Dr Phil Gorey (University College Dublin) Chair Dr Ciaran McCabe (Post Doctoral Research Fellow, University College Dublin) Title Municipal Gospel or necessity? Belfast Corporation and the regulation of midwives 1911-1918 Event UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland Seminar Series, 31 January 2019 Summary In 1911, Belfast Corporation sought and was granted powers to […] The post Belfast Corporation and the regulation of midwives 1911-1918 appeared first on CHOMI MEDIA.

Speaker Dr Lynsey Black (Maynooth University) Chair Associate Professor Catherine Cox (University College Dublin) Title Diagnosing Insanity: Women, Murder and Mental Health in 20th-century Ireland Event UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland Seminar Series, 20 September 2018 Summary Mad, bad, sad – the familiar tropes deployed to explain women who kill. This paper explores the […] The post Diagnosing Insanity: Women, Murder and Mental Health in 20th-century Ireland appeared first on CHOMI MEDIA.

Speaker Dr Fionnuala Walsh (University College Dublin) Chair Associate Professor Catherine Cox (University College Dublin) Title ‘You will feel that that you are being of some use’: Irish nurses and the Great War 1914-1918 Event UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland Seminar Series, 19 April 2018 Summary The First World War resulted […] The post Irish Nurses and the Great War 1914-1918 appeared first on CHOMI MEDIA.

Speaker Dr Jane Hand (Department of History, University of Warwick) Chair Associate Professor Catherine Cox (Director, UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland & School of History, University College Dublin Title Health on the High Street: Consumerism, the NHS and Low-Fat Diets in Britain since the 1970s Event UCD Centre for the History […] The post Health on the High Street appeared first on CHOMI MEDIA.

Speaker Associate Professor Marc Caball (School of History, University College Dublin) Chair Associate Professor Catherine Cox (Director, UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland & School of History, University College Title Patrick Browne (c. 1720 – 1790), an Irish botanist and physician in the West Indies Event UCD Centre for the History of […] The post Patrick Browne (c. 1720 – 1790) appeared first on CHOMI MEDIA.

Speaker Victora Williams (Director Food Matters) Title Food Matters Inside & Out Event Inside Reform: Prison Healthcare Campaigns, Past and Present. Inside Reform was a policy workshop co-convened by Associate Professor Catherine Cox (UCD) and Professor Hilary Marland(Warwick), as part of their Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award Project, ‘Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, […] The post Food Matters: Inside and Out appeared first on CHOMI MEDIA.

Speaker Dr Holly Dunbar (UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland) Title The Case of Prisoner Alpha: Hearing Prisoners’ Voices, Advocating for Health Reform Event Inside Reform: Prison Healthcare Campaigns, Past and Present. Inside Reform was a policy workshop co-convened by Associate Professor Catherine Cox (UCD) and Professor Hilary Marland(Warwick), as part of their Wellcome Trust […] The post The Case of Prisoner Alpha appeared first on CHOMI MEDIA.

Speaker Dr Rachel Bennett (University of Warwick) Title Identifying and Advocating for Women’s Health: The Duchess of Bedford’s 1919 Committee of Enquiry into Medical Care in Holloway Prison Event Inside Reform: Prison Healthcare Campaigns, Past and Present. Inside Reform was a policy workshop co-convened by Associate Professor Catherine Cox (UCD) and Professor Hilary Marland(Warwick), as part of their […] The post 1919 Committee of Enquiry into Medical Care in Holloway Prison appeared first on CHOMI MEDIA.

Speaker Anita Dockley (Research Director of the Howard League for Penal Reform) Title New Media, Old News: Strategies for Getting Penal Issues into Popular Discourse Event Inside Reform: Prison Healthcare Campaigns, Past and Present. Inside Reform was a policy workshop co-convened by Associate Professor Catherine Cox (UCD) and Professor Hilary Marland(Warwick), as part of their Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award […] The post New Media, Old News: Strategies for Getting Penal Issues into Popular Discourse appeared first on CHOMI MEDIA.

Speaker Fíona Ní Chinnéide (Acting Executive Director, Irish Penal Reform Trust) Title Improving Prison Health: Using Advocacy Tools to Affect Change Event Inside Reform: Prison Healthcare Campaigns, Past and Present. Inside Reform was a policy workshop co-convened by Associate Professor Catherine Cox (UCD) and Professor Hilary Marland(Warwick), as part of their Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award Project, ‘Prisoners, Medical […] The post Improving Prison Health: Using Advocacy Tools to Affect Change appeared first on CHOMI MEDIA.

Speaker Associate Professor Catherine Cox (UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland) Title Opening Address at the Inside Reform Policy Workshop Event Inside Reform: Prison Healthcare Campaigns, Past and Present. Inside Reform was a policy workshop co-convened by Associate Professor Catherine Cox (UCD) and Professor Hilary Marland (Warwick), as part of their Wellcome […] The post Inside Reform Policy Workshop: Opening Address by Associate Professor Catherine Cox appeared first on CHOMI MEDIA.

This is the audio only version of this talk by Dr Michael Sappol. To see a video version of this talk – which includes the images discussed – please go to our next podcast episode. Speaker Dr Michael Sappol (EURIAS Senior Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala) Chair Associate Professor Catherine Cox (Director, UCD […] The post Anatomy’s Photography [Audio Only] appeared first on CHOMI MEDIA.

Speaker Dr David Durnin (UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, University College Dublin) Chair Associate Professor Catherine Cox (Director of the UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, University College Dublin) Title ‘It is our Duty’: Medical Provision and the Irish Experience of the First World War Event UCD Centre […] The post Medical Provision and the Irish Experience of the First World War appeared first on CHOMI MEDIA.

Speaker Dr James McGeachie (Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, University of Ulster) Chair Dr Fiachra Byrne (UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland) Title A Network of Enterprises and a Centre of Calculation: Becoming Sir William Wilde Event UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland Seminar Series, 6 […] The post Becoming Sir William Wilde appeared first on CHOMI MEDIA.

Speaker Dr Rosemary Wall (University of Hull) Chair Dr David Durnin (UCD Centre for the History Medicine) Title The British Red Cross in 1916: Conscription, the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme Event UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland Seminar Series, 6 October 2016 Summary This paper looks at the […] The post The British Red Cross in 1916 appeared first on CHOMI MEDIA.

Speaker Dr Janet Greenlees (Glasgow Caledonian University) Chair Dr Fiachra Byrne (UCD Centre for the History of Medicine) Title The Tenuous Relationship Between Gender Health and Work in Britain and America, c.1860–1960 Event UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland Seminar Series, 3 March 2016 Summary This paper looks at the intersection of public health […] The post Gender Health and Work in Britain and America, 1860–1960 appeared first on CHOMI MEDIA.

Speaker Dr Alice Mauger Chair Dr Catherine Cox (Director, UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland) Title The Cost of Insanity: Public, Voluntary and Private Asylum Care in Nineteenth-Century Ireland Event UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland Seminar Series, 4 February 2016 Summary How did Irish medical practitioners and lay people […] The post The Cost of Insanity: Public, Voluntary and Private Asylum Care in Nineteenth-Century Ireland appeared first on CHOMI MEDIA.

Speaker Dr Lindsey Earner-Byrne (University College Dublin) Chair Dr Catherine Cox (Director, UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland) Title ‘Dear Father my health is broken down’: Writing health in Irish charity letters, 1922-1940 Event UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland Seminar Series, 18 September 2014 Summary This paper focuses […] The post Writing Health in Irish Charity Letters, 1922-1940 appeared first on CHOMI MEDIA.

Speaker Dr Angela Davis (University of Warwick) Chair Dr Lindsey Earner Byrne (University College Dublin) Title Developing Bodies and Minds: Children’s Experiences of Pre-school Childcare, Britain c. 1939-1979 Event Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland Seminar Series, 29 January 2015 Summary Dr Angela Davis, author of Preschool Childcare in England, 1939-2010: Theory, Practice […] The post Developing Bodies and Minds: Children’s Experiences of Pre-School Childcare, Britain c. 1939-1979 appeared first on CHOMI MEDIA.

Speaker Professor John Harley Warner (Yale) Title Student Work: Collective Identity, Belonging, and the American Medical School Event Keynote paper given at the symposium, ‘Medical training, student experience and the transmission of knowledge, c.1800-2014’, organised by Laura Kelly at CHOMI, UCD, October 2014 Summary Professor John Harley Warner’s paper examines identity and identity formation among American […] The post Student Work: Collective Identity, Belonging, and the American Medical School appeared first on CHOMI MEDIA.