Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland Podc

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 Dr Janet Weston (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) Title Reforming Prisons in the 1980s: The Impact of AIDS 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 Reforming Prisons in the 1980s: The Impact of AIDS 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 British Red Cross during the First World War and the year of 1916 more specifically. It is drawn from what will be a chapter in Rosemary's forthcoming book on the history of the British Red Cross. It examines the effect of the Military Service Acts, Conscription, the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme on the British Red Cross. The British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded was founded during the Franco-Prussian War to provide medical relief to both sides in the conflict. In 1905 this organisation was renamed as the British Red Cross. In the wake of this reorganisation, voluntary aid detachments were established throughout Britain from 1909 onwards. In some regions, such as Derbyshire, these were primarily male detachments that were formed out of the existing territorial forces. Between 1909 and 1914 some 50,000 women also joined the voluntary aid detachments. While women formed the bulk of the membership it is often overlooked that during the period of the First World War fully one-third of the members of the voluntary aid detachments were in fact men. Rosemary Wall Dr Rosemary Wall is Senior Lecturer in Global History at the University of Hull. Rosemary's research looks at the history of medicine in Britain and in British overseas territories. She is currently the Principal Investigator, with Professor Barry Doyle (University of Huddersfield), of a project entitled 'Crossing Boundaries: The History of First Aid in Britain and France 1909–1989', which is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. As part of this research, Rosemary is presently writing a book on the history of the British Red Cross. She is also in the process of finalising a book, co-authored with colleagues at King's College London, on British colonial nursing. Her doctoral research examined the role of bacteriology in hospitals, places of work and in local communities. In 2013, she published a monograph on this topic, entitled Bacteria in Britain, 1880–1939 (Pickering and Chatto). This work was republished as a paperback by Routledge in 2015. 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, 4 February 2016 Summary This paper looks at the intersection of public health and the working environment in Britain and America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It focuses particularly on gender and how workers, male and female, understood the perceived occupational health risks in the two countries. In her talk, Janet explores the experiences of occupational ill-health of male and female workers  when they worked alongside each other, and their responses in managing health and in seeking reforms to an unhealthy work environment. She presents a rich, multi-layered narrative involving employers, workers, politicians, social reformers, and purveyors of medicines - with these different groups of actors being important in different situations as both individuals and as groups of men and women who daily calculated the health risks associated with work and who sought to address such risks within the boundary of what they deemed acceptable working conditions. This boundary was fluid and it only sometimes corresponded with either trade union or political agendas. Workers' agency also varied depending on the relative personal, economic, and labour market constraints at play. Janet Greenlees Dr Janet Greenlees is a Senior Lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare. Janet's research interests extend across nineteenth and twentieth century Britain and America with a particular focus on occupational and environmental health, women's health, and the textile industry. She has published numerous research articles in peer-reviewed journals including, Social History of Medicine, Medical History, Social History, and Urban History. Janet has also edited the collected volumes Western Maternity and Medicine (2014) and Caring for the Poor in Twentieth Century Scotland (2015). Her monograph Female Labour Power: Women Workers’ Influence on Business Practices in the British and American Cotton Industries, c. 1790-1860 was published by Ashgate in 2007. She is currently working on a book, to be published by Rutgers University Press, provisionally titled, When Air Became Important: A Social History of the Working Environment in New England and Lancashire, c. 1860-1939.   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 interpret and define mental illness? What behaviours were considered so out of the ordinary that they warranted locking up, in some cases never to return to society? Did exhibiting behaviour that threatened land and property interests, the financial success of the family or even just that which caused embarrassment eclipse familial devotion and render some individuals 'unmanageable'? The nineteenth century saw the evolution of asylum care in Ireland. While Jonathan Swift famously left most of his fortune to found Ireland first lunatic asylum in 1746, it would be 70 years before the government followed his lead. In 1817 it enacted legislation permitting districts throughout Ireland to form asylums and by 1900, twenty-two such hospitals accommodated almost 16,000 patients. Growing demand for care for other social groups prompted the decision, in 1870, to admit some fee-paying patients, charged between £6 and £24 per annum, depending on their means. Out of this 16,000 only around 3% actually paid for their care. Private asylums, meanwhile, charged extremely high fees that were out of reach for the majority of society (usually several hundred pounds per year) and by 1900, thirteen private asylums housed 300 patients. Occupying a sort of middle ground, voluntary asylums, established by philanthropists, offered less expensive accommodation to those who could not afford high private asylum fees (from around £24 to a few hundred pounds). By 1900, these four voluntary asylum had outstripped the thirteen private ones, providing for 400 patients. Alice Mauger Dr Alice Mauger successfully completed a PhD at UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland in 2014. Her doctoral thesis examined institutions for the non-pauper insane in nineteenth-century Ireland. Prior to this she completed the MA programme on the Social and Cultural History of Medicine at the UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, UCD. Both her MA and PhD were funded by the Wellcome Trust. Dr Mauger has published on the history of psychiatry in Ireland and is currently writing a monograph stemming from her doctoral research. 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 on the perspective of those who experienced poverty, rather than those who decided policy, in the first decades of the newly-independent Irish state. It forms part of a wider project examining the issue of poverty in Ireland in the 1920s. The principal archival source from which this talk was drawn is a collection of letters held at the Dublin Diocesan Archives.  These letters, written by ordinary people, were addressed to the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin,  Archbishop Byrne, between 1920 and 1940. The topic of this paper emerged due to the ubiquity of questions of health as an overwhelming theme in these sources. The title of the paper, 'Dear Father my health is broken down', is taken from one source letter - but it is phrase that was used in many such letters and constituted a common idiom to express general ill-health in the 1920s and 1930s.   Lindsey Earner-Byrne Dr Lindsey Earner-Byrne is a lecturer in the School of History, University College Dublin and an Associate Staff Member of the UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland. She is an expert on poverty, gender, sexuality, the history of medicine and the development of welfare services in modern Ireland. In addition to her numerous scholarly publications, she is the author of a major monograph on the development of Irish maternal and child welfare services, Mother and Child: Maternity and Child Welfare in Ireland, 1920s-1960s (Manchester University Press, 2012) and a further monograph, The Letters of the Catholic Poor: Poverty in Independent Ireland, 1920-1940 (Cambridge) is forthcoming. This latter publication has emerged out of the research project, of which she was the director, 'Evolution of the Irish States Project, 2008-2011: Poverty and the Poor in Modern Ireland'. Lindsey has featured extensively on radio and television programmes as an authority on the social history of Ireland. You can listen to Lindsey discussing the importance of the of the Mother and Child Scheme Controversy via a HistoryHub podcast. 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 and Experience, discusses her research on the history of pre-school childcare in day nurseries in England, 1939-1979. In the middle of twentieth century the question of how to care for the under-fives was apparently an uncontroversial one in Britain as it was commonly assumed that such children were best left at home with mother. Yet, when probing beneath this assumption, it becomes clear that the issue was in fact subject to intense debate. Arguments against childcare outside the home centred on the fear that separating infants from their mothers caused them emotional harm whilst its proponents believed that it provided children with opportunities for physical, cognitive, and social development. If most people agreed that very young children should be at home with their mother, until what age this should be was not clear always clear. Should this be until they were two, three, or even five? Should care or education be the main goal of pre-school childcare? And what about children that couldn’t be looked after by their mothers? Children whose home conditions meant that their health would benefit from time spent outside the home? Or, indeed the only-child who lacked the company of other children? And casting a shadow over all these debates was the rising rate of female employment. What should be done about the children of working mothers? There were no simple answers to any of these questions with issues of resources combining with ideological concerns about the respective roles of the state and family as well as competing theories of child development also determining the provision of care for the under fives. A lack of funding for many child health and welfare schemes meant they could not always meant societal aspirations. This research for this paper forms part of a wider project looking at pre-school childcare in post-war Britain. This paper looks at children’s experiences of one form of pre-school childcare - the day nursery - using a range of different published and unpublished material, including both written documents and oral history interviews. There was a wealth contemporary sociological and medical studies conducted in the post-war decades into the health and well-being of children in different forms of pre-school provision. There was research into the preferences of parents, the economics of care, and the job satisfaction of practitioners. There were also number of studies of how women were able to combine home and work. This paper also looks at archival records, government records and reports at local and national looking at decisions made around the provision of pre-school childcare. It also makes use of oral history interviews, conducted by the author, in order to think about the experiences of those involved in pre-school childcare, including practitioners, mothers, and those who attended childcare as children.     The post Developing Bodies and Minds: Children’s Experiences of Pre-School Childcare, Britain c. 1939-1979 appeared first on CHOMI MEDIA.