RCPI Heritage Centre Lectures and History of Medicine Research Award
The RCPI Heritage Centre Lectures and History of Medicine Research Award will be taking place on the afternoon of Thursday 18th October 2012.
This year's Heritage Centre Lectures will focus on developments in medicine in 19th century Ireland. The three papers will be;
Medical and Social Philanthropy in Nineteen Century Ireland: The Society for Promoting the Comforts of the Poor by Dr Larry Geary, University College Cork
Custody, Care and Criminality: Forensic psychiatry in nineteenth century-Ireland by Dr Brendan Kelly, Consultant Psychiatrist, Mater Hospital
Progress which accords with the spirit of our age: the admission of women into the KQCPI and Irish Medical Schools by Dr Laura Kelly, Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, UCD
The Heritage Centre lecture will be followed by the presentations from the four shortlisted applicants for the RCPI History of Medicine Research Award. The award was instituted by RCPI in 2011 to encourage research into the history of medicine, and related social and cultural fields. The four shortlisted candidates are;
Dr Roy Sawyer, Medical Leech Museum - History of the Leech Trade in Ireland: Microcosm of a Global Commodity
Dr Laura Kelly, Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, UCD – Irish-trained women doctors in the Catholic missionary field, c.1920s-1950s
Shane Lehane, School of History, University College Cork – British Red Cross Society work in Ireland during World War I
Dr Anne MacLellan – Victim or vector? Tubercular Irish nurses in England 1930-60
The event will run from 2pm to 5pm of Thursday, 18th October in RCPI, 6 Kildare Street, the lectures and presentations will be followed by a reception and the awarding of the RCPI History of Medicine Research Award.
The event is open to all, and free of charge. We are asking those intending to come to register by contacting
college@rcpi.ie or 01 8639700, so we have an idea of numbers.