Heritage Centre Lectures - 19 October 2017
We are delighted to announce the programme for this year’s Heritage centre lectures taking place on Thursday 19th October 2017. This year’s lectures will explore the history of women in medicine and celebrate 350 years as a Royal College. The lectures will be followed by the presentations for the Kirkpatrick History of Medicine Award. This event is accredited for 6 CPD credits
2017 is an important year for RCPI, it marks the 350th anniversary of the granting of our first Royal Charter and also see the election of our first female President. This year’s Heritage Centre lectures mark these two events.
The first session explores what Ireland, and medicine, was like in 1667, and how the granting of our Royal Charter fitted into developments at the time. We will also be looking at the men who form the Fellowship of the College at its incorporation.
The second session will look at the changing role of women in medicine. From Dr James Barry, who disguised her gender to work as a surgeon in the British Army to Dr Dorothy Stopford Price who pioneered the BCG vaccination in Ireland. Dr Laura Kelly will explore the pivotal role played by the College in the admittance of women to the medical profession in the British Isles.
The final session of the day will showcase new research with the presentation for the Kirkpatrick History of Medicine Award. Three applicants have been shortlisted to present on the day they are;
Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi - ‘Ploughing before Sowing’: Trust and the Architecture of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) Medical Missions in Iran, 1879-1933
Anne Fallon - ‘Hyperlactation’: Physicians’ attitudes and directions on continued breastfeeding, 1890-1925
David Kilgannon - ‘Surely we can find a solution to this most vexing of problems’: Establishing a centre for the intellectually disabled in Bohola, Co. Mayo, 1967