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Epidemic Belfast raises difficult and challenging questions about Northern Ireland's medical history, from the 19th century to COVID. In each episode, experts examine themes including the health of B... more
FAQs about Epidemic Belfast:How many episodes does Epidemic Belfast have?The podcast currently has 33 episodes available.
November 04, 2021Prison Doctors and the TroublesEugenie Scott, PhD researcher at Ulster University, interviews Séanna Walsh, a former Republican prisoner, who discusses his negative experience of prison medical services during the Troubles....more23minPlay
November 04, 2021Injury, Hospital staff and the TroublesDr Ruth Coon (Researcher QUB) and Patrick Garland, a former staff member at the Royal Victoria Hospital, discuss how working life and wellbeing of healthcare workers were affected by the Northern Ireland Troubles....more40minPlay
November 04, 2021The Troubles, Psychological Trauma and FeminismDr Ian Miller, Lecturer at Ulster University, talks about how psychological trauma caused by the Troubles became a campaigning issue for feminist activism and asks whether psychologists at the time responded effectively to the problem....more13minPlay
November 04, 2021The Thalidomide Tragedy in BelfastMichael Kinsella, PhD researcher at Ulster University, and Hannah Brown, MA student at Ulster University discuss the thalidomide tragedy of the late 1950s and early 1960s and interviews survivor Jacqueline Fleming....more34minPlay
November 04, 2021Polio in BelfastHannah Brown, MA student at Ulster University, interviews polio survivors Jim Bailey and Eddie McCrory from the Northern Ireland Polio Fellowship, about their experience living with disability caused by the polio epidemic of the 1950s....more32minPlay
November 04, 2021Lobotomies in 20th-Century Belfast AsylumsRebecca Watterson, PhD candidate at Ulster University, discusses psychosurgery in Northern Ireland in the 20th century, and its harmful impacts on mental health patients....more17minPlay
November 04, 2021The Therapeutic Revolution, 1910s to 1960sDr Ian Miller, Lecturer at Ulster University, talks about the therapeutic revolution in medicine between the 1910s and 1960s....more13minPlay
November 04, 2021The Spanish Flu in Ireland, 1918-19Dr Ida Milne, Lecturer at Carlow College, and Dr Patricia Walsh, Curator at the Public Record Office for Northern Ireland, hold a round table discussion on the 1918-19 Spanish Influenza epidemic and its effect in Ireland in the early 20th century....more50minPlay
November 04, 2021The Care of Shell-shocked Veterans after the First World WarDr Michael Robinson, Leverhulme Trust Funded Early Career Researcher at the University of Liverpool, discusses his research into the health, treatment and care of shell-shocked Irish veterans returning from the First World War....more28minPlay
November 04, 2021Schools and Health in Edwardian Belfast, and Campbell College as a WW2 Military HospitalDr Tom Thorpe (independent scholar), talks about the role health and health protection played in Belfast schools during the Edwardian period and how Campbell College Belfast was used as a military hospital during the Second World War....more40minPlay
FAQs about Epidemic Belfast:How many episodes does Epidemic Belfast have?The podcast currently has 33 episodes available.