Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland

University College Dublin &

University of Ulster

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Annual Report 2007-08

Contents Centre Staff 1 Individual Activity 1 Symposia and Seminars 2 Public Outreach 4 Students 5 Funding Applications 5 Associated Activities 7 Visit from Wellcome Trust 7 Publications 8 Selection of Papers Presented at Conferences and Workshops 9

Centre Staff

In the year 2007 to 2008 we were delighted to welcome new members of staff to the centre and engage in a series of innovative collaborations. Funding from the Wellcome Trust Enhancement award, as well as from other sources, has enabled the Centre to further increase the number of core and associated staff and in the second year of our existence a number of researchers joined the Centre.

Dr Tom Feeney was awarded post-doctoral funding from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Dr Feeney’s project will interrogate the socio-political context of the introduction of the 1945 Mental Health Act in Ireland. His work is complementary to the Centre’s expertise in the history of psychiatry. Tom’s book, Sean MacEntee: A Political Life (Dublin, 2008) was published by Irish Academic Press and launched in October. Another post-doctoral candidate, Dr John Privilege, was appointed research associate on the History of Public Health in Northern Ireland Project which looks at the provision of public health under Northern Ireland’s four health boards in the period 1973-2009. His first book will look at Michael Logue and the Catholic Church in Ireland 1879-1925, and will be published by Manchester University Press in 2009. As part of the original award, Dr Susan Kelly was appointed as a research assistant with the Centre. Based at UU with Prof Jones, she is developing a project on the history of polio in Ireland (details below).

Two former employees of the Centre have taken up positions elsewhere. Dr John Manton was a temporary lecturer in the history of medicine at the Centre from 2007-8. Unfortunately he was unsuccessful in his application for a Wellcome Trust lectureship and is now working in a temporary appointment at Kings College London. Dr Sibylle Naglis completed her research on the ‘Medical Professions and the Survival of Informal Medical Practices’ project with Dr Cox. Unfortunately, Sibylle’s funding application to the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences was unsuccessful and she has returned to work in Scotland. We wish both John and Sibylle every success with their future work. They have kept contact with the Centre and we wish to thank them for all the many excellent contributions made whilst with us over the year especially their work with post-graduate students.

Individual Activity

In terms of individual activity, 2007/2008 was an eventful year. Prof Greta Jones, with Dr James McKenna and Dr Farhat Manzoor, has delivered (December 2008) the completed manuscript of a monograph to the Nuffield Trust on the effect of the Troubles in Northern Ireland on medical ethics. It has gone into the first stage (copy editing) of production. As well as contributing to the CHOMI symposia, Prof Jones presented papers at a number of venues in 2007-8 (details below) and was elected to the committee of the Worth Library, Dublin, in December 2008.

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Prof Daly has continued to work in collaboration with UCD Geary Institute and has presented her research work at workshops and conferences (details below). Dr Catherine Cox gaveDr Catherine Cox gave several presentations to workshops and conferences including University College, London and Trinity College, Dublin, and continues to work on her own research on medical practitioners in eighteenth and nineteenth century Ireland and her publications (details below). She acts on the advisory board of the ESRC funded project ‘Welfare Regimes under the Irish PoorESRC funded project ‘Welfare Regimes under the Irish Poor Law, 1850-1921’, Oxford Brookes University and of the Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick. In addition to the development of collaborative funding applications (details below), Cox has worked closely with Brian Donnelly from the National Archives of Ireland in the development of a successful application to the Wellcome Trust Research Resources in Medical History funding stream. She has also collaborated with Prof David Dickson in the development of his Wellcome Trust Project Grant application for the creation of a database of Irish doctors.

After her return from maternity leave in January 2008, Dr Leanne McCormick has continued her research on women’s health and, in particular, family planning in Northern Ireland in the twentieth century. After publishing an article on the provision of family planning clinics, she has gone on to look in depth at the social history of abortion in Northern Ireland.

Symposia and Seminars

The second year of the Centre’s activities included hosting several symposia. On 21 September 2007 a day-long specialist workshop on ‘Resources in Medical History’ was held in UCD. The event brought together academics, librarians and archivists from all of the major libraries and archives in Ireland. This included not only specialist medical libraries such as the Royal Colleges but also the two national repositories of archives in Ireland, the Public Record

Office of Northern Ireland and the National Archives of Ireland. Representatives from the Local Authority Archivists of Ireland, the Irish Film Archives and the Dublin Universities were also present. The event provided an occasion for academics, librarians, archivists and others to highlight the wealth and diversity of material available to individuals working in the discipline. As a result of the workshop, the Irish Society for Archives in association with the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland agreed to collaborate on publishing the workshop proceedings in their journal (Irish Society of Archives, vol. 5 (Dec 2008)). The volume, edited by Elizabeth McEvoy and Susan Hood, is sub-titled ‘Resources in medical history in Ireland’ and was launched on 2 December 2008.(Organiser: Dr Catherine Cox)

On 5 December 2007, in a departure from the assigned programme, a workshop for post-graduate students working in the history of medicine in Ireland was held at the Jordanstown campus of the University of Ulster. The workshop stretched over two days and was attended by PhD and MA students from Trinity College Dublin, the National University of Ireland at

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Special collections, UCD

Galway, Maynooth, Queens University Belfast and post-graduates attached to CHOMI at UCD and UU. In addition to staff from CHOMI, distinguished practitioners in social history and Irish history were invited to add their knowledge and experience of historical research. The workshop started with an introduction to CHOMI followed by a Round Table on Oral Histories in the History of Medicine. Student papers presented on 5 December included histories of tuberculosis and influenza (UUJ and TCD), the medical profession in nineteenth century Ireland (UU, Galway) and on the 6 December a Round Table on Epidemic Disease (UUJ, QUB, UCD). A session on the feminisation of the Irish medical profession (Maynooth, QUB) and on psychiatry in Ireland (UCD) followed. (Organiser: Prof Greta Jones)

A one-day collaborative workshop entitled ‘The Medical Marketplace and Medical Tradition: Interfaces between Orthodox, Alternative and Folk Practice in the 19th and 20th Centuries’ was held in UCD on 1 February 2008. The event explored the relationship between ‘orthodox’ and ‘alternative’ and ‘folk’ practices in the nineteenth and twentieth century medical marketplace. It focused particularly on attitudes to traditional and folk practices and how they were approached, absorbed or confronted by medical practitioners, including doctors who had undergone a regular training and those who acquired medical knowledge through other routes. And while opposition to the medical fringe was an important aspect of growing medical self-consciousness and the assertion of professional authority in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, so too for some medical practitioners was an interest and awareness of traditional approaches to medicine, as practiced by local healers and also as forms of domestic healing. The speakers were Dr Catherine Cox (UCD), Prof Frank Huisman, (Maastricht University), Dr Evert Peeters (University of Leuven), Prof Hilary Marland (University of Warwick), Caitriona Foley (UCD), Dr Leah Songhurst (University of Exeter) and Dr Carsten Timmermann (University of Manchester). It is intended that further workshops will be organised and a similar event will be held in March 2010. (Organisers: Dr Catherine Cox and Prof Hilary Marland, University of Warwick).

On May 28 2008, a one-day symposium on the history of child health took place at the University of Ulster, Belfast Campus. The speakers were Matthew Smith (University of Exeter), John Welshman (University of Lancaster), Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh (Dublin), Susan Kelly (University of Ulster), Alysa Levene (Oxford Brookes) and Jonathan Reinarz (University of Birmingham). The topics covered included healthcare for poor children in eighteenth century London, Birmingham Children’s Hospital in the nineteenth century, the Brentwood Centre for Mothers and Children, the education of the tubercular child in Northern Ireland, the development of the concept of childhood hyperactivity in American psychiatry, and the development of children’s hospitals in the Free State in the interwar years. (Organiser: Prof Greta Jones)

Seminar Series

The series is held alternately in UCD and UU with an audience comprising students, colleagues in history and other schools, and members of the medical profession. Presentations were heard from Richard Barnett (University College London - ‘A Medical Glamour Puss? Epidural

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Analgesia and the Contesting of British Childbirth’), Dr Rhodri Hayward (University College London - ‘Busman’s stomach and the embodiment of modernity’), Dr Hera Cook (University of Birmingham - ‘Emotional expression and the uses of objectivity in mid-20th century England’), Dr Siobhan Horgan-Ryan (University College Cork - ‘Irish Nurses and the Great War’) and Dr Rosemary Elliot (University of Glasgow - ‘Death gives a party’: anti-smoking campaigns in 1960s West Germany’). (Organisers: Dr Catherine Cox and Prof Greta Jones)

Public Outreach

Professor Jones joined the board of the John Blair Trust (which dispenses research assistance to medical students doing history of medicine projects and research) and drafted their first annual report on behalf of the new trustees. She is continuing to work with the Ulster Medical History Society in preparation for the 2009 conference of the British Society for the History of Medicine.

Dr Cox worked closely with Brian Donnelly and other staff at the National Archives of Ireland in the development of an application to the Wellcome Trust Research Resources in MedicalWellcome Trust Research Resources in Medical History funding stream to process and preserve the archives of the Peamount Tuberculsosis Hospital and make the collection available to users in the National Archives of Ireland.

The Centre, with the generous support of the College of Arts and Celtic Studies, contributed to the republication of ‘The History of Dr Steevens’ Hospital Dublin 1720-1920’ by T. Percy C. Fitzpatrick (UCD Press) to mark the 275th anniversary of the opening of the hospitals.

Members of the Centre continue to contribute to various media events. Dr Cox appeared in two TV documentaries. She contributed to an episode of the Irish ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ which was broadcast in October 2008. Both Dr Cox and Dr Kelly acted as consultants for different episodes of the BBC programme ‘Who do you think you are?’ These are to be aired in September 2009. Dr McCormick acted as a consultant for Waddell Media on the issue of US troops based in Northern Ireland during World War Two.

Caitriona Foley and Dr Cox contributed to the radio programme ‘Talking History’ on Newstalk 106-108 FM. Foley contributed to a segment on the Great Flu in Ireland in January 2008 and Cox outlined the origins of the Irish welfare system in a programme aired in August 2008.

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Students

Since September 2006, history of medicine modules have been available at undergraduate level at both UCD and UU. At UCD the MA in Social and Cultural History of Medicine in Ireland continues to attract students. The first group of students graduated in December 2008. Alice Mauger, was awarded a Wellcome Trust Master’s Quota Award for the coming academic year. Alice’s thesis will examine the development of the private lunatic asylums in nineteenth century Ireland.

Caitriona Foley completed and submitted her thesis on the 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Ireland in September 2008. Her viva will take place early in the New Year (2009). In May 2008 Susan Kelly successfully defended her PhD ‘Suffer the Little Children: History of Childhood Tuberculosis in the North of Ireland, c. 1865 to 1965’. She began work as a research assistant with the Centre in December 2007.

Both Elizabeth Lake and Fiachra Byrne are in the second year of their PhD studies. Elizabeth is researching medical communication in early nineteenth century Ireland and she passed her confirmation viva in June 2008. Elizabeth was recently given �uest �tatus affiliation withElizabeth was recently given �uest �tatus affiliation with Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine at University College, London. Fiachra, who is working on Psychiatry and Psychiatric Care in Ireland in twentieth century Ireland, also passed his confirmation viva in �eptember 2007. Anne Mac�ellan started a part-time �hDconfirmation viva in �eptember 2007. Anne Mac�ellan started a part-time �hD with Dr Cox in September 2007 examining Dr Dorothy Price’s role in the eradication of TB in Ireland. In June 2008 she was successful in her application for PhD funding under the Enhancement Award. This has allowed Anne to register as a full-time PhD student. Phil Gorey continues to work on her study of the development of midwifery in Ireland.

Funding Applications

Staff at the Centre submitted funding applications to a variety of bodies during the academic year. In summer 2008, the Centre was awarded a grant of £34,000 by the Institute of Public Health for a year long research post to write a history of public health in Northern Ireland from 1970-2009. These dates mark the beginning and end of the reorganisation of public health after the imposition of direct rule in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s. In 2009 the present arrangements will come to an end and this study will be the first evaluation of the operation of the system over the last thirty years. In September Dr John Privilege was appointed as the researcher and is in regular contact with the Public Health Trust.

The Centre was also awarded a generous Wellcome Trust conference grant to fund the Society for the Social History of Medicine post-graduate conference due to be held in University College Dublin on 16-18 April 2009.

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Dr Tom Feeney was awarded post-doctoral funding from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Dr Feeney’s project will interrogate the socio-political context of the introduction of the 1945 Mental Health Act in Ireland. His work is complementary to the Centre’s expertise in the history of psychiatry.

During the 2007-08 academic year Dr Cox collaborated on the development on two research fellowship applications, which were subsequently submitted. Dr Mary Muldowney applied for funding to study the philosophical underpinnings of medical education and practice in Northern Ireland and Britain compared to that in the Republic. Dr Thomas Dalzell submitted an application to explore the contribution of Thomas Freeman (1919-2002) to the history of contribution of Thomas Freeman (1919-2002) to the history of psychiatry in Ireland. The project is in collaboration with the medical school at UCD and will be complementary to on-going research by Fiachra Byrne and Tom Feeney.

The Centre also submitted applications for two research projects. Dr Cox, with Dr Ivar McGrath of UCD School of History and Archives, has submitted a funding application to the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences for a proposed project on ‘The State and Medical Provision in Ireland 1660-1800’. The project will examine the extent to which the Irish executive and legislature facilitated or actively promoted the improvement of medical provision in the period 1660-1800. During the year of her research assistantship Susan Kelly worked with Prof Jones and Dr Cox to prepare a submission for a project grant from Wellcome Trust on the history of polio in Ireland. This was not successful. However, alternative sources of funding are now being examined.

Applications in Development1. Dr Cox, in collaboration with Prof Hilary Marland of the University of Warwick, has submitted a preliminary application for a Wellcome Trust project grant. The project, ‘Madness, Irishness and Migration to Lancashire, 1840-1921’, is intended to be run as a joint initiative between UCD and Warwick.

2. Medical ResourcesDr Cox is working with Dr Niamh Brennan, Archivist, Donegal County Coucil, on the development of an applictaion for a Conservation Survey of Medical and Health archives held by Donegal County Archives. The collections include hospital and poor law records, some of which are in a very delicate condition. Hopefully this will form part of a larger project to fully catalogue the material and also conduct a survey of other records extant in county Donegal. If successful, it is hoped the project in Donegal will operate as a pilot for other county archives with rich resources in medical history. The project is at the preliminary stage.

3. Prof Mary E. Daly is working in collaboration with UCD Geary Institute Centre for Behaviour and Health in developing a portal providing historical data on various aspects of Irish health and socio-economic conditions relating to health and welfare.

4. Dr Andrew Sneddon has been developing his interest in the history of medical institutionsDr Andrew Sneddon has been developing his interest in the history of medical institutions in the long eighteenth century and has applied for seed funding for a three-month preparatory project on the ‘Medical Landscape of Eighteenth Century Ulster’.

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Associated Activities

Dr Aude Doody at UCD has continued to develop her research interests in ancient �reek and Roman scientific and medical ancient �reek and Roman scientific and medical writings. With Dr Liba Taub (History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge), she co-organised the third workshop in the series in March 2008. The event received generous funding from the Wellcome Trust. Another workshop will be held in March 2009. Dr Doody also submitted an unsuccessful funding application to explore patients and their illnesses in ancient Rome to the IRCHSS.

Dr Gillian McLelland has been working with the Centre to develop the medical aspects of her QUB thesis on Ulster Presbyterian women missionaries. She contributed a paper on contacts between Irish medical missions and India in the late nineteenth century to the post-graduate symposium in May 2008.

During her research leave, Dr Susannah Riordan at UCD, worked on the manuscript of a monograph on Venereal Disease in Independent Ireland 1913-1953: A Political and Social History. She has also submitted several articles for publication (details below).

Dr Andrew Sneddon has a forthcoming publication on medical institutions and state intervention in eighteenth century Ireland, ‘Institutional Medicine and State Intervention in Eighteenth Century Ireland’ in Fiona Clark and James Kelly (eds.) Ireland and Medicine in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, (Ashgate, 2009).

Visit from Wellcome Trust

We were delighted to host a visit from the Wellcome Trust representatives to both University College Dublin and the University of Ulster on the 14 and 16 May 2008. During this visit Wellcome Trust representatives met the staff and students associated with CHOMI. At UCD they visited UCD Archives and the Special Collections Library to view the medical history collections. The archives of An Bord Altranais (the Irish Nursing Board) were a particular feature of the visit to UCD Archives. This collection, which was transferred to UCD in June 2006, has now been fully accessioned and is available to users. During the Wellcome Trust visit general feedback was given and individual discussion with applicants on funding questions took place.

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National Archives of Ireland

Publications

Catherine Cox has completed several articles during the year and these are now in press. They include ‘Historiography of Irish Institutional Care, 1650-2000’ in Dr. Leeann Lane, Dr. Mary McAuliffe and Dr. Katherine O’Donnell (eds), Palgrave Guide to Irish History (Palgrave, March 2009); ‘The Medical Marketplace and Medical Tradition in Nineteenth Century Ireland’ in Stuart McClean and Ronnie Moore (eds), The Root, The Wand, And The Crystal: Folk Healing and Health Care Practices In The British Isles (Berghahn Press Oxford, forthcoming, 2009). She has continued to work on her two monographs: Catherine Cox and Maria Luddy (eds) Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750-1950 (Palgrave, forthcoming 2009) and Managing Insanity in Nineteenth Century Ireland (Manchester University Press, forthcoming). She has submitted an article ‘Dispensary practitioners and community in post-famine Ireland’ to the volume she is editing with Maria Luddy Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750-1950 (Palgrave, forthcoming, 2009).

Aude Doody and Liba Taub (eds) Authorial Voices in Greco-Roman Technical Writing (Trier, June 2009) and ‘Authority and Authorship in the Medicina Plinii’ in Liba Taub and Aude Doody (eds) Authorial Voices in Greco-Roman Technical Writing (Trier, June 2009), 59-69.

Mary E. Daly, ‘Something old and something new: Recent research on the Irish Famine’, in E. Vanhaute (ed) When the potato failed. Causes and effects of the last European subsistence crisis, 1845-1850. The 1840s Hunger Crisis in Northern Europe (Brepols, 2007)

Lindsey Earner-Byrne, ‘Moral Prescription:The Irish Medical Profession, the Roman CatholicMoral Prescription: The Irish Medical Profession, the Roman Catholic Church and the Prohibition of Birth Control in Twentieth-Century Ireland’ in Catherine Cox Catherine Cox and Maria Luddy (eds) Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750-1950 (Palgrave, forthcoming, 2009).

Caitriona Foley has submitted an article��This revived old plague’�� coping with flu’��This revived old plague’�� coping with flu’ to Catherine Cox and Maria Luddy (eds) Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750-1950 (Palgrave, forthcoming, 2009). Caitriona also contributed to an article on Caitriona also contributed to an article on the Great Flu epidemic in Ireland written by Claire O’Connell for the Irish Times: ‘The virus that waged its own war’, Weekend Review, The Irish Times, 29 March 2008.

Greta Jones, with Dr James McKenna and Dr Farhat Manzoor , has delivered the completed manuscript of a monograph on the effect of the Troubles in Northern Ireland on medical ethics to the Nuffield Trust. It has gone into the first stage of production.

Susan Kelly has a book chapter forthcoming in 2009, ‘Tuberculosis Cures Used in Ireland’ in James McConnel and Frank Ferguson (eds), Across the Water: Ireland and Scotland in the Nineteenth Century (Four Courts Press, forthcoming, 2009).

Leanne McCormick ‘”The Scarlet Woman in Person”: The Establishment of a Family Planning Service in Northern Ireland, 1950-1974’, Social History of Medicine, 21, 2 (2008): 345-360. Her monograph Regulating Sexuality: Women in Twentieth Century Northern Ireland will be

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published by Manchester University Press in September 2009. She has two book chapters forthcoming in 2009 ‘“I hear she got that bad disease”: VD in Northern Ireland during the Second World War’, in M. H. Preston and M. Ó hÓgartaigh, (eds.), Gender, Medicine and the State in Ireland: 1700-1950 (Syracuse University Press, forthcoming) and ‘These Lepers should be deported’: the treatment and prevention of VD in Northern Ireland in the Inter-War period’ in Catherine Cox and Maria Luddy (eds),Catherine Cox and Maria Luddy (eds),, Practices and Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History (Palgrave, forthcoming 2009)

John Manton has published an article and book chapter,”‘The Lost Province’: neglect‘The Lost Province’: neglect and governance in colonial Ogoja, Nigeria”, in History in Africa, 35 (2008) and “Making “Making“MakingMaking modernity with medicine: mission, state, and community in leprosy control, Ogoja, Nigeria, 1945-1950”, in H. Ebrahimnejad (ed.), Modern Medicine and its Development beyond the West: Historical Perspectives, (Routledge, 2008)

Ann MacLellan has published a journal article on ‘Science, Medicine and History’,‘Science, Medicine and History’, Converse, 33, (Spring 2007) and an article on ‘Dr Dorothy Price and the eradication of tuberculosis in Ireland’ in Irish Medical News (May 19, 2008), 28. Ann contributed to ‘An Irish Woman’s Diary’ (Dorothy Price, Kathleen Lynn and Dorothy Price’s contribution to revolutionary politics and to medicine), The Irish Times, (Monday, 10 November, 2008). Ann’s chapter on ‘Revolutionary Doctors: Dorothy Price, Kathleen Lynn and Brigid Lyons Thornton’ in Labcoats and Lace (Women in Technology and Science, March 2009).

Susannah Riordan, ‘Venereal disease in the Irish Free State: the politics of public health’ Irish Historical Studies, 35 (2007) and ‘‘A probable source of infection’: the limitations of venereal disease policy 1943-1951’ in Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh and Peg Preston (eds) Gender and medicine in Ireland 1700-1950 (Syracuse University Press, forthcoming).

Selection of Papers Presented at Conferences and Workshops

Fiachra Byrne:‘History of Grangegorman Mental Hospital’ at Multi-Disciplinary Academic Programme Meeting St Brendan’s Psychiatric Hospital, Health Service Executive, June 2008.

‘Irish Psychiatric Nosology 1900-1960’ at GraduateIrish Psychiatric Nosology 1900-1960’ at Graduate Workshop, Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland at the University of Ulster, Jordanstown, December 2007.

Catherine Cox:‘“Everybody, who knows anything, knows …” Madness, knowledge and community in Nineteenth Century Ireland’ at History of Psychology and Psychiatry Series, University College London, February 2008.

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‘The Medical Marketplace and Medical Tradition in Nineteenth Century Ireland’ at‘The Medical Marketplace and Medical Tradition in Nineteenth Century Ireland’ at University College Dublin, February 2008.

‘Dispensary Practitioners in the Community in Nineteenth-Century Ireland’ at Social History of Medicine Society Annual Conference, Glasgow, September 2008.

Mary E. Daly: ‘Who speaks for Children? The role of the parent in mid-twentieth century Ireland’ at Conference on History of Childhood, Boston College, Dublin Centre, April 2008.

‘‘An Irish solution to an Irish problem’: the medical profession and family planning in Ireland’ at Social History of Medicine Society Annual Conference, Glasgow, September 2008.

Caitriona Foley:‘Fear in the Great Flu’ at Graduate Workshop, Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland at the University of Ulster, Jordanstown, December 2007.

‘Medical beliefs in the Great Flu: miasmas, emotions and the senses’ at ‘The Medical Marketplace and Medical Tradition: Interfaces between Orthodox, Alternative and Folk Practice in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries’, University College Dublin, February 2008.

Greta Jones:‘Tuberculosis in Ireland’ at Research Seminar in Contemporary History, Trinity College, Dublin, February 2008.

‘Medicine and the Making of the Irish Middle Class’ at University of Glasgow, June 2008.

‘The Doctor’s Strike, 1901-1906’ at Social History of Medicine Society Annual Conference, Glasgow, September 2008.

Susan Kelly:‘Time to Talk?: Factors that contributed to sufferers of childhood tuberculosis deciding to talk about their experiences years later’ at Oral History Society Annual Conference, University of Birmingham, July 2008.

‘Education of the Tuberculous Child in Northern Ireland, 1921 to 1955’ at Symposium on History of Child Health, University of Ulster, May 2008.

‘History of Polio in Ireland’ at Northern Ireland Polio Fellowship Annual Conference, Dunmurray, May 2008.

‘Tuberculosis Cures Used in Ireland Over the Centuries’ at Institute of Irish Studies Seminar Series, Queen’s University, Belfast, February 2008.

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‘Oral History in the History of Medicine’ at Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, Graduate Workshop, Belfast, December 2007.

Elizabeth Lake: ‘Medical Communication in early nineteenth century Ireland’ at 25th Annual Print Networks Conference on the History of the British Book Trade, Bishop Grossetest University College, Lincoln, July 2008.

‘Medical Men and Medical Publications: The Turpentine Doctor’ at Post-graduate Symposium University of Ulster Coleraine, May 2008.

‘The History of Medical Communication Ireland 1801-1858’ at Graduate Workshop University of Ulster, December 2007.

Ann MacLellan:‘Against the tide: a female perspective’ at Science and Society seminar, Dublin City University, Dublin, January 2008.

Leanne McCormick:‘The Scarlet Woman: the Genesis of a Family Planning Service in Northern Ireland’ at Women’s History Seminar Series, Queens University, Belfast, November 2007.

‘Prophylactics and Prejudice: Venereal Disease in Northern Ireland during the Second World War’ at Institute of Irish Studies Seminar Series, Queens University, Belfast, February 2008.

‘”Confused with prejudice and muddled thinking”: the establishment of family planning clinics in Northern Ireland, 1950-74’ at Sixteenth Conference of Irish Historians in Britain, University of Warwick, September 2008. John Manton:“On nutrition in Nigeria�� concern, conflict, and crisis in the 1960s” at �a construction des crises sanitaires en Afrique coloniale et post-coloniale: santé, environnement et saviors entre grandes catastrophes et désordres chroniques, at Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France, September 2008.

“Mission, Clinic and Laboratory: Curing Leprosy in Nigeria, 1945-67” at The Secular inMission, Clinic and Laboratory: Curing Leprosy in Nigeria, 1945-67” at The Secular in the Spiritual: Missionaries and Knowledge about Africa, Basel University, Switzerland, December 2007.

“Trialling drugs, creating publics: medical research, leprosy control, and the constructionTrialling drugs, creating publics: medical research, leprosy control, and the construction of a public health sphere in post-1945 Nigeria”, presented on Manton and Geissler panel, aton Manton and Geissler panel, at African Studies Association 50th Annual Meeting, New York, USA, October 2007.

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“Leprosy, governance, and the control of space in colonial Nigeria” at Conference of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, September 2007.

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