Book your free ticket at: https://www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-events/events/lib-stories-of-compassionate-care-from-overseas-231122 Migration has been vital to UK healthcare since at least the birth of the NHS. About fifteen percent of NHS staff today are not British nationals, and this figure rises for doctors, registered nurses and support workers. Even more have family histories embedded in stories of migration – their parents, … More Stories of Compassionate Care from Overseas (online event), Nursing Support Workers Day at the Royal College of Nursing, Wednesday 23 November 2022, 6 – 7.15pm

Please join us on November 17th at 4:00 pm for the next event in our Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland (CHOMI) Autumn seminar series: “Decolonising drugs history? Lessons from the Islamicate lifeworld of intoxication” Maziyar Ghiabi (University of Exeter) The aim of this paper is to provide a conceptual approach to writing decolonial … More CHOMI Seminar Series – “Decolonising drugs history? Lessons from the Islamicate lifeworld of intoxication”, 17th November at 4pm

Event Information Making Public History of Medicine in Northern Ireland October 4 at 1-2:30 PM ET Register in advance for this meeting: https://uni-regensburg.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Arf-mrpzIuGdYNrEib8c–SWf2mIWOMXVY After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Join us on October 4 at 1-2:30 PM ET, in our first collaboration with the History of Science, Technology … More Virtual #HSTM: Making Public History of Medicine in Northern Ireland, 4th October 1-2:30pm ET (6pm GMT)

In March 2020, Canadian PhD Student Sarah Qidwai recruited four of her social media contacts, also early career historians of science, to produce content at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since conferences and on campus opportunities would be gone for the foreseeable future, as countries around the world went into lockdown, she visualized building … More Virtual #HSTM

Please join us on October 20th at 4:00 pm for the next event in our Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland (CHOMI) Autumn seminar series: “An Alternative to Antibiotics: Soviet Bacteriophage Therapy and its Role in Cold War Politics”  Miriam Lipton (Oregon State University) During WWII, the Allies had a secret weapon, one that … More CHOMI Seminar Series – “An Alternative to Antibiotics: Soviet Bacteriophage Therapy and its Role in Cold War Politics”, 20th October at 4pm

An online seminar by Dr Kelly Gray as part of the Medical & Health Humanities Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. Drug dependency became an increasingly serious problem in nineteenth-century America, and most of this use began with medical use. The problem remained largely hidden until the late 1860s, because habitual opiate users … More Trinity College’s Long Room Medical and Health Humanities Seminar: ‘The Unhappy Victims of This Habit’: Drug Addiction as a Problem in Nineteenth-Century America, September 22nd at 1pm

Please join us on September 29th at 4:00 pm for the first event in our Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland (CHOMI) Autumn seminar series: “A curious absence’: Tracing maternal deaths in Irish workhouses at the turn of the twentieth century” Judy Bolger (Trinity College Dublin) The history of Irish maternity services has focused largely … More CHOMI Seminar Series – “A curious absence’: Tracing maternal deaths in Irish workhouses at the turn of the twentieth century”, 29th September at 4pm

Dr Ida Milne, Lecturer in European History at Carlow College, has been elected chair of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (HSTM) Network of Ireland. Speaking to Carlow College regarding her appointment, Dr Milne stated “HSTM is now well established in third level education internationally, but Ireland is lagging behind this trend, with few … More HSTM Network Ireland Elects New Chair!