Links

Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland sites

• Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland: CHOMI’s official website
• History of Medicine in Ireland: CHOMI blog
• Exploring Prisoner Health: Project website of ‘Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850-2000’. This is a major new, five-year project, funded by a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award, and led by co-PIs Dr Catherine Cox (Director of CHOMI, UCD) and Professor Hilary Marland (University of Warwick)

Blogs and other resources that we like

• RCPI Heritage Centre Blog: Blog of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Heritage Centre on the archival holdings of the centre
• HSTM Network Ireland: Blog of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine Network of Ireland which mostly covers upcoming events in the HSTM field in Ireland
• Remedia: History of medicine blog edited by Kate Womersley and Lisa Haushofer
• The History of Vaccines Blog: Blog maintained by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
• The Quack Doctor: Blog on health advertising including, but not limited, ‘quack’ remedies; by Caroline Rance
• Early Modern Medicine: Blog on research and ideas on medicine in the early modern period by Dr Jennifer Evans
• Early Modern Practitioners: Blog by the project team, ‘The Medical World of Early Modern England, Wales and Ireland, c.1500-1715’
• Exploring Prisoner Health: Project website of ‘Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850-2000’. This is a major new, five-year project, funded by a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award, and led by co-PIs Dr Catherine Cox (Director of CHOMI, UCD) and Professor Hilary Marland (University of Warwick)
• h-madness: Academic blog on the history of psychiatry
• The Chirugeon’s Apprentice: Blog by Lindsey Fitzharris on surgery during the pre-anaesthetic era
• Wellcome Library | Blog
• Morbid Anatomy: Blog of the Brooklyn-based death-centric Morbid Anatomy Museum
• Medical Heritage Library: Digital curation collaboration by some of the world’s leading medical libraries
• Centre for the Medical Humanities, Durham University: Blog by the members of the excellent medical humanities centre at Durham University
• Medical Humanities Research Centre, University of Glasgow: Blog listing of Scottish medical humanities events
• The History of the Emotions Blog: Blog run by members of the Centre for the History of the Emotions, Queen Mary University of London

Academic Centres and Networks

Ireland

• Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland (CHOMI), University College Dublin
• Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland (CHOMI), University of Ulster
• Medical Humanities Initiative, Trinity College Dublin
• History of Science, Technology and Medicine Network of Ireland

Scotland

• The Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH), Glasgow Caledonian University and the University of Strathclyde
• Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow
• Medical Humanities Network, University of Glasgow
• Edinburgh University Medical Humanities Research Network
• Medical Humanities Research Network, Scotland
• Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Aberdeen
• Medical Humanities, University of Aberdeen

Wales

• Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Prifysgol Aberystwyth University

England

• Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick
• Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester
• Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter
• Centre for the History of the Emotions, Queen Mary University of London
• Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University
• Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease, Durham University
• The UCL Centre for the History of Medicine
• Centre for the History of Medicine, Ethics and Medical Humanities, University of Kent
• History of Medicine Unit, University of Birmingham
• Centre for the Humanities and Health, King’s College London
• Centre for Medical Humanities, Oxford Brookes University
• Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford

Europe

• Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
• Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen

America

• Consortium for History of Science Technology and Medicine
• Medical History Centre, Stanford Medicine
• Centre for the History of Medicine and Public Health, The New York Academy of Medicine
• Trent Centre for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine, Duke University and School of Medicine 

Professional Associations

• Society for the Social History of Medicine
• American Association for the History of Medicine
• European Association for the History of Medicine

Libraries, Archives and Collections

• Heritage Centre, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
• Medical History Collection, Trinity College Dublin
• Marsh’s Library
• Basque Museum of the History of Medicine
• Wellcome Collection
• Morbid Anatomy Museum
• Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen
• Medical Heritage Library
• London Museums of Health and Medicine
• Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons
• Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
• Thackray Medical Museum
• Berlin Museum of Medical History at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
• Maude Abbott Medical Museum

Podcasts, Audio and Video

• Health, Illness and Ethnicity: Migration, Discrimination and Social Dislocation. Workshop hosted at CHOMI, UCD, June 2011
• medical history: a podcast by Dr Michael Hubbard MacKay (iTunes)
• History of Medicine Podcasts, by the Oxford Brookes Centre for Health Medicine and Society
• The History of Science and Medicine, by the Huntingdon
• Medical Movies on the Web, from the US National Library of Medicine
• The Public Health Film Goes to War, from the US National Library of Medicine
• History of Tropical Medicine at Oxford, University of Oxford Podcasts
• War Neurosis, Netley Hospital, 1917, Wellcome Library
• Cruel Kindness, Public health film on childhood obesity, 1968, Wellcome Library
• The Crisis in Western Medicine, 1975, Paul Grob and John Bradshaw discuss Ivan Illich’s Medical Nemesis, Wellcome Library
• Full list of Wellcome Library Films, historical and otherwise