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Frank McGuinness. Living With Mortality - A Short Stay in Switzerland
24/7/2024 | 40 mins.
This episode features the renowned playwright and poet Frank McGuinness who gave a paper entitled "Living With Mortality - A Short Stay in Switzerland" on February 25th 2010 in the UCD Humanities Institute. Frank spoke about the issue of mortality as treated in drama from Greek theatre to contemporary work, including his adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts and his screenplay for the widely acclaimed and BAFTA nominated BBC drama "A Short Stay in Switzerland" which tells the story of Dr Anne Turner who chose to end her life in a Dignitas clinic in Switzerland in January 2006.
Phil Gorey. Municipal gospel or necessity? Belfast Corporation and the regulation of midwives 1911-1918.
31/1/2019 | 46 mins.
Dr Phil Gorey (UCD). Municipal gospel or necessity? Belfast Corporation and the regulation of midwives 1911-1918.
Lynsey Black. Diagnosing insanity - women, murder and mental health in twentieth-century Ireland.
20/9/2018 | 40 mins.
Dr Lynsey Black (Maynooth University). Diagnosing insanity: women, murder and mental health in twentieth-century Ireland.
Fionnuala Walsh.'You will feel that you are being of some use' - Irish nurses and the Great War 1914-1918.
12/4/2018 | 38 mins.
Dr Fionnuala Walsh (UCD).'You will feel that you are being of some use' - Irish nurses and the Great War 1914-1918.
Jane Hand. Health on the High Street - Consumerism, the NHS and Low-Fat Diets in Britain since the 1970s.
08/2/2018 | 47 mins.
Dr Jane Hand (Warwick). Health on the High Street - Consumerism, the NHS and Low-Fat Diets in Britain since the 1970s.

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About UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland

The UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland (CHOMI) is based in the School of History at University College Dublin. The Centre is an interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to the study of the medical humanities. Established in 2006, the Centre seeks to promote the study of the social and cultural history of medicine. Its research and other activities are supported by a range of funding bodies including Wellcome Trust. This podcast features recordings of academic papers on the history of medicine and medical humanities which were given at CHOMI events in University College Dublin, and other venues in Ireland.

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