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This Consortium was established in March 2010 at an IRCHSS-funded symposium emanating from the Cradle to Grave: Lifecycles in Modern Ireland Pilot Study (Maternity) which was held at the University of Limerick. The consortium comprises research active academics with interests in medical humanities and the history of medicine from University College Cork, Queen’s University Belfast, and the University of Limerick.
20/07/2017
Al-Razi on Smallpox and Measles | Muslim Heritage By: Abdul Nasser KaadanThis article by Dr. Abdulnasser Kaadan shows that as early as the 9th century, the well known Muslim physician al-Razi described, in his book Kitab al-Jadari wa 'l-Hasba (The Book on Smallpox and Measles), the symptoms of smallpox and measles. Furthermore, he distinguished bet...
07/06/2017
This 'Bloom' garden has been specially designed for people with dementia The garden demonstrates the importance of outdoor spaces for people with dementia.
Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine turned Patients into Consumers | Reviews in History From a comparative perspective the health system of the United States has a history that is both representative and idiosyncratic. Like other advanced industrial nations, it witnessed the rise of biomedicine to professional dominance in the later 19th century, followed by the transformation of the h...
03/04/2017
Medieval villagers mutilated the dead to stop them rising, study finds Archaeological research may represent first scientific evidence of English practices attempting to protect the living from the dead
31/03/2017
Professional patienthood and mortality: Seán Ó Ríordáin's diaries 1974–1977 Unwieldy by nature, unsolicited diaries and their study, this article contends, have the potential to offer deeper insights into the experience of illness but only if they receive due consideration from scholars. This article uses a series of historic diaries to examine the concept of ‘professional…
25/03/2017
Earliest Depiction of 'Fiery Serpent' Found in Medieval Painting Italian researchers examining a medieval painting may have found the earliest depiction of dracunculiasis, a parasitic infection in which a long worm creeps out of the skin.
25/03/2017
Motor neurone disease and schizophrenia are linked - study TCD researchers’ findings cast doubt on divide between psychiatry and neurology
02/03/2017
The embalmed heart of Richard the Lionheart (1199 A.D.): a biological and anthropological analysis - Medievalists.net We performed a full biomedical analysis of the mummified heart of the English King Richard I (1199 A.D.). Here we show among other aspects, that the organ has been embalmed using substances inspired…
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Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe | Patricia Skinner | Palgrave Macmillan This book is open access under a CC-BY 4.0 license. This book examines social and medical responses to the disfigured face in early medieval Europe,...