Podcasts recorded at the Health, Illness and Ethnicity: Migration, Discrimination and Social Dislocation Workshop which took place IN UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland on 10-11 June 2011.

This two-day workshop focused on the relationship between illness, migration, discrimination and social dislocation primarily during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explored the relationship between historical concerns surrounding health and ethnicity, and current health practices and policy. The workshop contributes to debates on the susceptibility of specific groups to medical interventions, as well as interpretations of the relationship between health and illness, migration and ethnicity. We considered how the medical management of specific ethnic groups intersected with broader health and welfare strategies. By migration, we refer to migration between countries and internal movements of populations, for example between regions or from rural to urban areas. The workshop explored the experiences of particular groups, be these ‘foreigners’, migratory peoples, patients of varied religious denominations and those suffering from particular disorders or diseases.

It was the second event associated with the Wellcome Trust project ‘Madness, Migration and the Irish in Lancashire, c.1850-1921’.

 CHOMI Podcast

The UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland (CHOMI) based in the UCD School of History, is an interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to the study of the medical humanities. Established in 2006, the Centre seeks to promote the study of the social and cultural history of medicine. Its research and other activities are supported by a range of funding bodies. 

This podcast series features recordings of academic papers on the history of medicine and medical humanities which were given at CHOMI events in University College Dublin, and other venues in Ireland.

https://www.ucd.ie/chomi/

Marland, Cox and York - Irish Migration and Mental Illness in Nineteenth Century Lancashire

Alan Ingram - Governmentality: Neoliberalism, Exception and the Management of HIV and AIDS in the UK

John Welshman - From the Cycle of Deprivation to Social Exclusion: Ethnicity and Poverty

John Odin Jensen - Immigrant and Transient Illness in the American Midwest. New York (1825-1890)

Marjory Harper - Detention and Deportation: Hidden Dimensions of Scottish Migration to Canada

Katherine Foxhall - Britain's Colonial Vaccines: Convicts, Emigrants & Children at Sea (c1820-1850)

Roberta Bivins - Race, Ethnicity and Environment in the Postcolonial Metropole

Anne Mac Lellan - Victim or Vector? Tubercular Irish Nurses in Britain 1930 to 1960

Sinead Donohue - Postgraduate Training Requirements for the Medical Profession in Ireland

Letizia Gramaglia - Migration and Mental Illness in the British West Indies 1838-1900

History Hub. is based at the School of History, University College Dublin, Ireland. Our ambition is to make the most recent academic research available on-line to everyone who loves history. 

Our podcasts feature historians talking about a whole range of subjects from medieval to modern history, both Irish and international. Our From the Archives section showcases original historical documents held in the Archive at UCD. We also have a History and Policy section where historians contribute to current policy debates.

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