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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

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

The garden demonstrates the importance of outdoor spaces for people with dementia.

06/04/2017

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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...

06/04/2017
03/04/2017

Archaeological research may represent first scientific evidence of English practices attempting to protect the living from the dead

31/03/2017

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

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

TCD researchers’ findings cast doubt on divide between psychiatry and neurology

02/03/2017

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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