The HSTM Network Ireland Reading Group meet online once a month to engage in discussion about a topical article in the fields of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine.
HSTM Reading Group Programme 2025
All are welcome to join our online reading group and contribute suggestions for future readings.
The theme of our three upcoming meetings is contraception and maternity health.
Thursday 17th April 2025, 1-2pm
Ann Daly, (2012), “Veiled obscenity’: Contraception and the Dublin Medical Press, 1850–1900″ In: Elaine Farrell (ed), ‘She said she was in the family way’: Pregnancy and infancy in modern Ireland (University of London Press), 15–33.
Thursday 15th May 2025, 1-2pm
Ciara Breathnach, (2022), “Immigrant Irishwomen and maternity services in New York and Boston, 1860–1911” In: Medical History, 66(1), 3–23.
Thursday 19th June 2025, 1-2pm
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Please register prior to joining by emailing: hstmnetworkireland@gmail.com.
Details of readings and a link to the discussion group will then be forwarded to you.
Join the meetings here: Zoom Link
Please contact Dr Elena Schaa if you have any queries about our seminar arrangements or you would like to make a suggestion for future themes.
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