Irish Medical Humanities Today
National Library of Ireland
8 November 2019
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Organised by the Irish Medical Humanities Network
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9.30-10.00
Registration with tea and coffee
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10.00-10.20
Opening Remarks
Sandra Collins, Director of the National Library of Ireland
Oisín Wall (Irish Medical Humanities Network)
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10.20-11.20
Panel: Engagement and involvement
Chair: Alice Mauger (University College Dublin)
Hilary Moss (University of Limerick): Control, power and the art of listening: the role of the arts in healthcare contexts
Oisín Wall (University College Dublin): Living Inside: Handling difficult subjects in public history
Pippa Little (Limerick City and County Council): Limerick Culture and Arts Office and UL Hospitals Arts Committee exhibition project 2019
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11.20-11.35
Tea and coffee
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11.35-13.00
Panel: Collaborations
Chair: Oisín Wall (University College Dublin)
Catherine Cox (University College Dublin): Engaged History and the Medical Humanities
Desmond O’Neill (Trinity College Dublin): To what extent is medical humanities scholarship reflective of joint working between disciplines?
Maria Stuart (University College Dublin): Metaphoric Stammers and Embodied Speakers: Connecting Clinical, Cultural and Creative Practice in the area of Dysfluent Speech
Carmel McKenna (Limerick Institute of Technology): LIT’s Interdisciplinary Medical and Health Humanities Research Group (IMeHHRG)
13.00-14.00
Lunch
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14.00-15.00
Panel: Practitioners
Chair: Triona Waters (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick)
Ailise Bulfin (University College Dublin): Cultural representations of child sexual abuse: myths, fears and resilience
Anne Marie Meenan (Coombe Women & Infants University Hospital, Dublin) and Phil Gorey (University College Dublin):
Delivering the district: Anne Lynch, midwife to Oldcastle, Co Meath, 1921 to 1968
Kieran Fitzpatrick (NUI Galway): Working in the borderlands: tracing disability in the history of surgery through the archive of Peter Freyer, 1896-1921
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15.00-15.15
Tea and Coffee
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15.15-16.15
Panel: Education
Chair: Catherine Cox (University College Dublin)
Clare Hayes Brady (University College Dublin): Caring and Coping: narrative and adolescent health
Jennifer Moran Stritch (Limerick Institute of Technology): Death Education at Third Level: an Irish Experience
Alice Mauger (University College Dublin): “Mad”, “Drunk” and “Stoned”: Teaching the History of Medicine
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16.15-16.30
Tea and coffee
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16.30-17.30
Panel: Disease and War
Chair: Kieran Fitzpatrick (NUI Galway)
Ronan Foley (Maynooth University): Auxiliary Hospitals during World War I: Assemblages of Care through the pages of Irish Life
Fiona Gallagher (Independent Researcher): Sligo is a furnace: The Town has become a Place of the Dead’: An examination of the 1832 Cholera epidemic in Sligo town
Ida Milne (Carlow College): Why collect oral histories of disease? From the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic to vaccination resistance
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17.30-17.45
Closing remarks
Alice Mauger (Irish Medical Humanities Network)