History of Medicine Section Meeting, Wednesday 15th May 2013
15/05/2013 in Winter Hall, Royal College of Physicians, 6, Kildare Street, Dublin 2
RAMI History of Medicine Section Meeting
Date: Wednesday 15th May 2013
Time: 6pm
Venue: Winter Hall, Royal College of Physicians, 6, Kildare Street, Dublin 2
Summary:
The History of Medicine Section of the Royal Irish Academy of Medicine in Ireland has initiated a project called the Living Medical History Project which seeks to record the unique memories of medical practitioners who worked in Ireland over the last seventy years. Practitioners working in the 1940s and 1950s experienced a type of practice that has all but disappeared. They worked with diseases that were no longer common, such as polio and tuberculosis, and in an environment that did not have MRI scanners, CT scanners, or in some cases, access to antibiotics.
Cardiac Surgery, General Practice, Medicine, Paediatrics, Ophthalmology, General Surgery, Public Health, and Haematology are some of the specialties recorded to date. This presentation will provide a glimpse of how these specialties have evolved over the last seventy years.