Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture, by Heather Murray. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - November 17, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Dracula as Cholera: The Influences of Sligo ’s Cholera Epidemic of 1832 on Bram Stoker’s Novel Dracula (1897)
AbstractThe paper argues that historic events in the western Irish town of Sligo were more substantial in shaping Bram Stoker ’s novelDracula (1897) than previously thought. Biographers of Stoker have credited his mother, Charlotte Thornley Stoker, for influencing her son ’s gothic imagination during his childhood by sharing tales of the Sligo cholera epidemic she had witnessed in 1832. While Charlotte Stoker’s written account of Sligo’s epidemicExperiences of the Cholera in Ireland (1873) influenced Bram Stoker, it is argued that as a voracious library researcher he is likely to have cross-referenced it with ot...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - November 17, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture, by Heather Murray. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.
(Source: Journal of Medical Humanities)
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - November 17, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Introduction —Epidemics and Disease in Ireland: Literature, Culture, Histories
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - November 16, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Here, the light is always fading
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - November 10, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Parnellites, Playboys, and Pathology: Irish Modernist Drama and the Politics of Sexual Health
AbstractThe personal, political, and aesthetic ideals that Irish modernists found embodied in the figure of Charles Stewart Parnell —independence, self-mastery, and a capacity for radical self-fashioning—have been well attested in Irish literary historiography. What has been less often noted is the centrality of sexual health to the conception, articulation, and emulation of those virtues, particularly when attempting to tra nslate Parnell’s public persona to the stage. This essay addresses this lacuna by tracing how a medicalized and politicized conception of sex informed Irish modernist efforts to dramatize the Par...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - November 9, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
A Subject of Deepest Dread: Se án O’Casey, The Easter Rising, and Tuberculosis
AbstractSe án O’Casey’s playThe Plough and the Stars presents audiences with a view of life in Dublin ’s poverty-stricken tenements during the 1916 Easter Rising. Critical consensus holds that it is a play primarily concerned with the Easter Rising set against a backdrop of tenement life. This paper argues instead that this is a play about tuberculosis in Ireland set against the backdrop of the 19 16 Easter Rising. The characters in the play place far more importance on tuberculosis and their impoverished state than on politics or even the violence erupting in the streets. The fears and concerns regarding this infec...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - November 7, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
The Paradoxical Home and Body in Jennifer Johnston ’s The Christmas Tree (1981)
AbstractJennifer Johnston ’s fiction presents the conditions of Irish culture and society by exploring the separations between interior and exterior realms and past and present temporalities persisting within the insulating privacy of the familial home space. InThe Christmas Tree (1981), the home is both haven and prison for Johnston ’s heroine. In this paper, I argue that the home—which assumes the form of the individual body and the familial home—is paradoxical. The protagonist leaves 1950s Ireland because of the country’s rigid gender roles in order to pursue an autonomous life as a writer in England, but she ...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - October 29, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
“It Has Made Me Think”: Engaging the Public with the History of Health in the Modern Irish Prison
AbstractSince the establishment of the modern prison system in the early nineteenth century, prisons and prisoners have been construed as sites of moral, social, and biological contagion. Historic and contemporary studies show that most prisoners experience severe health inequalities, higher rates of addiction and mental health issues, and lower life expectancy than the rest of the population. They also come from deprived social strata. Yet, these aspects of Irish penal history have been largely neglected in academia and popular histories. Our article discusses two public history projects —an art installation,The Trial, ...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - October 22, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
