UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland

Dr Gayle Davis of University of Edinburgh. Her paper 'Gayle Davis. Test Tubes and Turpitude. Debates surrounding Artificial Insemination in Mid-Twentieth-Century Scotland' was given on November 11th 2010 in University College Dublin.

Professor Joanna Bourke of Birkbeck College. Her paper 'Are Women Animals. Women, Sentience, and Rights in the UK from the 1790s to the Twentieth Century' was given on October 21st 2010 in University College Dublin. Prof Bourke's new book 'Are Women Animals? Historical Reflections on What It Means To Be Human, 1791 to the Present' (London: Virago) is forthcoming in 2011.

Professor David Hufford, Senior Fellow at the The Samueli Institute in Virginia. His inquiry has focused on spiritual experience, the experiential grounds for spiritual beliefs, and the role of reason in their development and persistence. His paper "Folk Healing Comes of Age" was given in Trinity College Dublin on September 16th 2010 and was in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. Prof Hufford was also in Dublin to launch the publication of FOLK HEALING AND HEALTH CARE PRACTICES IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND: Stethoscopes, Wands and Crystals a new book edited by Ronnie Moore and Stuart McClean.

This episode features Professor James Kelly of St Patrick's College Drumcondra. His paper 'I was right glad to be rid of it: dental medical practice in eighteenth-century Ireland' was given on September 30th 2010 in University College Dublin. Prof Kelly has published on 18th Century Irish Legislature, poor relief and was co-editor of the collection 'Ireland and Medicine in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries' which was published by Ashgate in January 2010.