2018 Kirkpatrick Award Finalists
We are very excited to announce the finalists for this year’s Kirkpatrick History of Medicine Award, which will be taking place on Thursday 18 October. This award aims to encourage new research into history of medicine in Ireland.
This year’s four finalists are;
Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston – ‘Dear Dr Kirkpatrick’: Recovering Irish Experiences of Venereal Diseases in the 1920s
Aisling Shalvey – The Eight Amendment in Historical Perspective
Triona Waters – Remedying the ‘growing evil’: The curable and incurable patients of the Limerick District Lunatic Asylum 1827-1887
Shelby Zimmerman – The South Dublin Union and Cork Street Fever Hospital’s Response to the Smallpox Epidemic of 1871-3