RCPI History of Medicine Research Award 2014 – Shortlist announced
We are delighted to announce the shortlist for this year’s
RCPI History of Medicine Research Award. Now in its fourth year the award aims
to promote and encourage research into the history of medicine in Ireland and
related social and cultural history.
This year’s four shortlisted finalists are;
- Stephen
Bance - ‘A lonely furrow in virgin soil’: the
evolution of aftercare institutions for poliomyelitis in Ireland, 1950-1968.
- Michael Dwyer - The Ring College Immunisation
Disaster
- Kieran Fitzpatrick - Examining medical practice and its
educational, social and political contexts through the Indian career of Charles
Sibthorpe, c. 1870-1900
- Ailish Veale - ‘A
class of her own’: Negotiating religious and medical identities in Ireland and
on the Missions, 1945-1960.
All four shortlisted finalists will have 15 minutes to present their
research paper, followed by questions from the judging panel and the audience.
The judging panel will then make their selection and the winner will be
announced at a reception following the presentation.
The Research Award will be held on Tuesday 14
th October at
3.30pm in No 6 Kildare Street, with registration opening at 3.00pm. The event
is free of charge and it open to all. You can book a place online on by
emailing
stlukes@rcpi.ie.
The RCPI History of Medicine Research Award is part of RCPI’s St Luke’s
Symposium.
You can download the full programme of events here. As part of the
St Luke’s Symposium the Heritage Centre will be running tours of No 6 Kildare
Street on Monday 13
th October and will be holding a series of
lectures on the interplay of medicine and architecture, both in Victorian
Ireland and today.
Further details can be found here.